It is true that everyone did not act at night, and they were preparing for tomorrow. The next morning, after a little washing, we had breakfast at the boss's and set off for the mountain.

The name of Xie Foshan is actually related to a legend, saying that a Taoist came to this mountain a long time ago and settled here. Since ancient times, Taoists have had a variety of cultivation methods in order to become immortals and ascend.

One of the methods is said to be from Lu Zu Lu Dongbin, which is Dan Dao.

The Dan Dao is divided into Inner Dan and Outer Dan, this Inner Dan is to produce a golden pill in the body through exercises, and the corresponding way of the Outer Dan is a method that is easy to be understood and known by outsiders, that is, to collect medicine and alchemy.

But if you really understand it this way, you will go astray.

Lin Fan also learned about it after seeing it in the ancient books in the library pavilion of the sect, although the Wai Dan pays attention to alchemy and medicine collection, but the conventional kind of alchemy and medicine collection is the lowest level.

The real alchemy and medicine collection is to visit the famous mountains and rivers to collect the aura of heaven and earth, use your own body as a furnace to refine medicine, and Dancheng will soar.

And that Taoist took a fancy to the aura of Xie Foshan, but in the process of collecting big medicines, he found that there was a hurdle that he could not pass, and even this hurdle was about to become his inner demon.

But he did not give up, but found another way, visited an ancient temple on the mountain, carefully studied the Dharma, and successfully ascended after cross-reference and confirmation with the way of the Waidan.

Later generations felt that his ascension was due to the reference to Buddhist scriptures, so the mountain was renamed Xie Foshan.

This story was naturally included in Chen Hanlin's information to Lin Fan, in Lin Fan's opinion, this story is not groundless, just like the myths and legends in many places tell urban news, but it is unknown whether the real situation at that time was as told in the legend.

They were walking on the mountain path, a team of people and horses were exploring the way in front, and a team of people and horses were vigilant behind, and even Chen Hanlin was nervous and could deal with emergencies at any time. Only Lin Fan was like no one, it really seemed like he was swimming and climbing the mountain in the wild.

However, there is nothing to see on this Xie Buddha Mountain, and most of the towering trees are ancient cedar trees, and the trunks of these trees are too high, blocking the sunlight in the woods, so that there are almost no other tall plants in the forest except these cedar trees.

The rest are just mosses, small bushes, and ferns, which are very good sights for the woods on the hills.

However, the more this is the case, the more Chen Hanlin and the others dare not take it lightly, because it shows that the danger behind this mountain will be far more complicated than they think.

Suddenly, the explorer in front of him raised his right hand to signal everyone to stop.

He pointed a gun at the trunk of a cedar tree in front of him and said, "There are scratches here!" ”

Chen Hanlin stepped forward and looked at it carefully.

The scratches are about three inches long, and they are three scratches with similar widths between the front and back, and from the depth, it seems that this thing is not very large, but the scratches are still bloody, indicating that this place may have experienced a fierce battle.

He then ordered the men to search the vicinity carefully.

Lin Fan also stepped forward to study the scratch, and then turned his head to Chen Hanlin on the side and asked, "What do you think this is?" ”

Chen Hanlin groped the beard on his chin with his hand, thought seriously for a while, and said his analysis.

"The width of the front and back of the three scratches is the same, indicating that the claws of this thing are about the same length and not deep, indicating that this thing is not very strong, which is in line with the characteristics of human attacks. Coupled with a piece of human skin tissue that was just found next to it, I suspect it was the walking corpse! ”

Lin Fan nodded noncommittally after hearing Chen Hanlin's answer, but then reached out and picked up the branch on the ground, pointed to the empty space under the three scratches and asked, "What is this?" ”

Chen Hanlin hadn't noticed that there were still traces there, so he leaned over to the trunk.

I saw a very short, but deep groove in the trunk, which looked more like a hole had been cut in the trunk by some sharp object than the three scratches that looked like scratches.

Lin Fan picked up the branch in his hand and gestured at it, and then poked it into the small hole, and the small branch did not enter little by little, and finally stopped at a position about the length of half a finger.

Chen Hanlin on the side asked in a daze: "What is this, the fingernails of animals are, shouldn't one blow have such a strong penetrating power......"

"Indeed, some of the rare species I know of have no such scars." Lin Fan's face became unusually serious, he was not afraid of these monsters created by the Holy Spring Sect, but he was worried about the red stone.

What the hell is this? Why does it have this kind of power, it can power the laboratory, it can turn people into zombies and other things, and it can even change the structure of living things.

He had never heard of these abilities, and taking one out alone was at the legendary level, and he had only heard of it in Master's bedtime stories.

Lin Fan looked at Chen Hanlin and the explorers of the adventure team and comforted: "Let's go, according to the current intelligence, these things will not be able to act at least during the day." Let's go to their headquarters as planned. ”

Chen Hanlin nodded in agreement, and the adventure team had no opinion when they saw that Chen Hanlin's father had already agreed.

After all, they also knew before taking the task that Chen Hanlin was also a master of external strength, and if he really encountered any problems that could not be solved, there would be a high one to stand on top when the sky fell.

So the team returned to its previous state, Lin Fan and Chen Hanlin were protected in the middle, heading towards the top of the mountain.

Along the way, they found some other scratches, which were the same as the one just now, and at first glance they did look like they were caused by some kind of animal, such as bears and felines, but on closer inspection, they were not exactly.

Finally, Lin Fan and his party came to the vicinity of the headquarters of the Holy Spring Sect mentioned in Chen Hanlin's intelligence, on the west side was an ancient cedar tree that the three of them could not hold, and on the north side there was a boulder larger than a millstone inserted vertically in the soil, and under the boulder there was a pool of water more than half a meter wide.

At first, everyone thought it was a small puddle, but one explorer threw a stone down, only to find that the "small puddle" was bottomless, at least fifty or sixty meters deep.

"Master, it seems that this is the Holy Spring, but I don't see a trace of the Holy Spring Sect, and the subordinate information is wrong." Chen Hanlin bowed down and pleaded guilty to Lin Fan.

When Lin Fan saw the small pool, he understood where this Holy Spring Sect was, but he didn't expect the other party's address to be so tricky.

"It's okay, your information is not wrong, the Holy Spring Sect is indeed here." Lin Fan pointed to the small waterhole and said.

Chen Hanlin and the people of the adventure team looked at Lin Fan in confusion.

"We're already above the mountainside, and if there's a fifty or sixty metre deep pool in this place, where does the water come from? What's down there? ”