After Chen Hanshi exploded and died, the scene was already a mess.

The stone slabs on the ground crumbled apart from the ice, revealing one large hole after another.

A few human skins in the mist were still playing music and dancing, and the carp skins floating on their heads were still so terrifying.

Ji Que poked them a few times with his sword, and found that the other party didn't react at all, still playing on his own.

It's like they're immersed in an endless dream, repeating it all over and over again, oblivious to everything out there.

Until he snorted, Ji Que accidentally poked a little harder, and broke one of the skins.

As far as the eye could see, the human skin wilted and fell to the ground, losing all its life, except for a carp skin that tugged at its corpse.

This is called the real "breath of skin." ”？

As for the adult-sized carp that attacked Ji Que before, it was re-fished.

This carp has suffered at least two sets of combos from Ji Que, and his body is covered with hammer marks, sword marks, brick marks, ruler marks, and even stool marks.

But in general, one of its eyes can be vaguely seen with eyelids.

According to Ning Hongyu, Chen Hanshi has a very clever illusion, which should be inseparable from this kind of fish with eyelids.

This means that this Chen Hanshi not only can refine pills and molt, but also raise fish?

To be honest, this fish reminded Ji Que of the "Mud Dragon King" who was killed by him on the boat, when the Mud Dragon King turned into the rouge in the story of the boat boss, and almost didn't scare the other party to death.

Obviously, this adult-sized carp is much more capable, and the feeling of oppression that made his heart beat almost half a beat just now was incomparable to the "rouge" that night.

At this time, Ning Hongyu stood on the collapsed white jade pavilion, looked at the waters under the ice, and said, "There seems to be a mansion down there. ”

A few people were curious and couldn't help but look down.

As a result, Ji Que, Elder Xue, and Old Man Luo looked carefully for a while, but they didn't see any of the so-called outlines of the mansion.

So they looked at Ning Hongyu, who only had his left eye open, and made sure that people really couldn't talk to each other.

Is this woman better than their six eyes in one eye?

Ji Que twisted his hand, and a beam of light shot out from the Thousand Machine Sword, illuminating a piece of water below like a flashlight.

Old man Luo said with respect in his eyes: "What else can't you do with this sword?" ”

"That's too much." Ji Que replied.

Old man Luo said with a serious face: "If one day, it suddenly becomes your woman and sleeps with you, I will not be surprised by the old man." ”

Ji Vacancy: "......"

Turn the sword into a woman, you can imagine it, and you are still so indecent at an age......

Still, it's a good idea.

It is said that there is no woman in the heart, and the sword is naturally a god, and if the sword is originally a woman, it will be pulled back and forth every day, will it be a god?

The four of them prepared for a while, but they still planned to go into the water.

Although Chen Hanshi died, they still had many puzzles that had not been solved.

This place is more underworldly, and they don't want to visit it anymore, so the best way is to take this opportunity to find out everything here at once.

Gollum.....

As the bubbles continued to rise upward, several people got closer and closer to the house below.

The water here is cold and biting, and under the light of the beam of light emitted by the sword in Ji Que's hand, it still presents a faint green color, which is extremely deep.

Finally, a few people floated in front of the gate of the house in the water.

This building has already collapsed a lot because it has been soaked in water all year round, and from here, it vaguely looks like a deep house.

Goo Dong ......

Suddenly, a stream of water rushed in, and the green moss that stuck to the door swayed.

It was a very intimidating feeling, like there was some big guy breathing in this house.

Ji Que and the four of them quickly formed a defensive formation, glanced at each other, and swam in.

When you enter the sloping gate of the house, the first thing that catches your eye is a wall.

The wall is covered with green moss and aquatic plants, and a small number of exposed patterns have long been unbearable, looking like faces hidden in the green moss and water plants, which is particularly gloomy.

When they arrived here, the expressions of the four of them were even more solemn, and Old Man Luo had unconsciously taken out the "Secret Ecstasy Thorn".

Because the feeling that the behemoth is swallowing water is more and more obvious.

Ning Hongyu swam over first, followed by Ji Que, and after that, they suddenly floated there without moving.

Elder Xue and Old Man Luo saw surprise and even fear in the eyes of the two juniors.

You must know that these two juniors are much more courageous than them, otherwise they would not be alive now.

And what exactly did they see?

Elder Xue swam over, and when everything behind the wall came into her eyes, she was so frightened that she almost choked on water.

It was a huge, fish-shaped thing, like a shipwreck, that filled the otherwise spacious courtyard.

When the light of the sword in Ji Que's hand shone past, Elder Xue and Old Man Luo's scalps were tingling for a while.

It wasn't a giant statue at all, it was a real carp, the scales and the flesh were as real as that.

They could even smell the rotten fishy smell it was emanating from.

Ji Que looked at Ning Hongyu, and Ning Hongyu shook his head.

It's not a hallucination, it's a real carp.

It's hard to imagine that there really is such a big carp in this world.

Everyone has a feeling of chilling all over their bodies.

Because it was so big, it lay there silently, as if it were sleeping, and the scales on its skin had fallen off quite a bit, each one half the size of a man, emitting a dull glow.

At this time, the beam of light projected by the Thousand Machine Sword in Ji Que's hand suddenly flickered and dimmed, and Elder Xue and Old Man Luo looked at him in fear, and then looked at the big fish, for fear that the other party would wake up in an instant.

A moment later, as Ji Que twisted for a while, the beam stabilized again, but it was much darker than before.

Ji Que wrote a line of words underwater with an apologetic face - "I'm sorry, the sword has entered the water, so let's use it." ”。

He only remembered now that the flashlight function really didn't take into account the waterproof problem.

But the flickering appearance of the other party just now really had the atmosphere of a horror movie, and even he was scared to sweat.

Elder Xue and Old Man Luo felt that he was unreliable, so they took out their own lighting magic weapon.

Ji Que knew that most of their lighting tools were made of fiery stone, which was indeed quite stable, but it was expensive.

The soft light shines through the green waters, becoming darker and darker.

At this time, Ning Hongyu wrote in the water: "Don't worry, she's dead." ”

For Ning Hongyu's vision, the three of them still trusted, so they relaxed a little.

But it's only a little.

Because this thing is so big, even if it is dead, it still gives people a huge sense of oppression, especially the fish eyes with long eyelids, whether you take the light or not, wherever you swim, it seems to be looking at you.

It's as if it never died.

At this time, a string of bubbles suddenly burst out of the mouth of the big fish, and the whole mouth opened slightly, and the water flow around it changed, startling several people.

Elder Xue and Old Man Luo were even so frightened that they retreated for a long distance, and Old Man Luo's Secret Ecstasy Thorn was even floating in front of him, ready to attack

At this moment, Rao is Ning Hongyu felt that this behemoth had come to life.

But after that, everything was quiet again.

Ji Que suddenly thought of something and swam over.

When the beam of the Thousand Machine Sword was projected into the mouth of the fish that had just opened, he only felt that his scalp was numb.

I saw that in the mouth of this carp, there was another slightly smaller carp.

Another slightly smaller carp opened its mouth, and another opened its mouth......

They overlap on top of each other, and I don't know how many layers they have.

Ji Que immediately understood that this was not a fish at all, but a fish skin.

The behemoth in front of you is propped up by layers of lifelike fish skin.

Huge carp, layer upon layer, I don't know how many fish skins are in it.

Does this mean that the things in front of you have shed countless layers of skin?

Every time a snake sheds, it means that it has survived another catastrophe, so the molt of the same snake tends to grow larger and larger, while the molt of this carp tends to get smaller and smaller.

Looking at those overlapping fish skins with long mouths, Ji Que only felt that this kind of thing was really disgusting.

He stepped back, and suddenly, stepped on a broken plaque.

The plaque was soaked in water, swollen so badly that it was crushed by a stone.

In the Momo Lake, Ji Que saw the words "Zhao Family Ancestral Temple" on it.

Yes, the only words on it can be recognized are "Zhao" and "Ancestral Hall", but it is easy to guess the remaining two words.

The ancestral ancestral hall of the Zhao family, the ancestral ancestral hall of the Zhao family, the house that sank into the water, belongs to a family surnamed Zhao.

Wait, he remembered that the ancestor of this Yunxue Sect was also surnamed Zhao?

Zhao Lianyue.

So, Zhao Lianyue is his clansman?

In the Momo Lake, Ji Que had a little guess of his own.

In the early days, there may have been a family surnamed Zhao in this realm, and judging from the deep appearance of this courtyard, this family was quite prosperous at that time.

Maybe it was because of the earthquake and flash floods, or maybe it was some other reason, the entire Zhao family house sank into this water.

In this water, there happens to be such a terrible carp spirit.

If a carp spirit wants to take shape, it must go through countless molts, or countless molts, and it cannot be allowed to acquire a human form.

And it relied on its own mysterious power to occupy the body of a person named Zhao Lianyue in the Zhao family, and then it was able to walk around the world in human form.

After that, there was the story of Zhao Lianyue, the ancestor of the Yunxue Sect.

The experience of Yunxue Sect Patriarch Zhao Lianyue and Linghu accompanying each other and eventually becoming a generation of grandmasters is obviously an over-beautified story.

Carp spirit and spirit fox, in fact, can be regarded as spirits, and there is no shortage of legends in this world that spirits marry each other and go to the avenue together.

It's just that this way of occupying the human body is not perfect, after the carp essence obtains Zhao Lianyue's body, it still needs to continue to molt in order to continue life, does this also explain the reason why Zhao Lianyue, the ancestor of the Yunxue Sect, obviously only has the cultivation of the Six Realms to move the mountain realm, but he has lived for nearly a thousand years.

This longevity is obviously unreasonable.

In these long years, the carp spirit Zhao Lianyue had a special purpose, maybe because of the Great Dao of Immortality, maybe because he wanted to relieve the disadvantages of the body, or maybe he simply wanted to devour the spirit fox Taoist companion who was also a spirit, so he had the picture of the big fish devouring the spirit fox that he saw before.

If this speculation is true, it only means that this is a particularly dark story.

Zhao Lianyue, the first patriarch of the Yunxue Sect that everyone admires, is very likely not to be a human from the beginning?

Of course, this is all wishful thinking by Ji Que through limited information.

There may also be another possibility, that is, Zhao Lianyue devoured the carp essence and the spirit fox by some means, and then had this strange means of immortality.

After all, the human heart in this world is often sinister and greedy.

Strength and immortality have a great natural temptation for human beings, especially immortality.

In order to confirm his guess, Ji Que had the courage to swim into the mouth of the huge carp.

He swam through layers of open mouths, and finally saw the carcass of a "carp" about an adult tall in the deepest part of the layered skin.

The eyes of this "carp" still have eyelids, but they are more human-like.

Because it has limbs.

On the carcass of the fish, there are human hands and feet.

He felt that this was Zhao Lianyue's corpse.

The corpse of the first ancestor of the Yunxue Sect.

In the rear, Ning Hongyu also swam in.

Through her confirmation, the carp with human limbs was indeed dead.

And Ji Que also understood a word from this corpse - "dead but not stiff".

The corpse had been soaked in water for an unknown number of years, but it was still lifelike, with little sign of decay, and you could even clearly see the long, white-haired nails on its hands and feet.

But the body was not complete.

There are holes of various sizes on the head of the fish, which are the marks of the sharp digging.

Involuntarily, Ji Que thought of another person.

Chen Hanshi.

To be precise, it's Gu Xin.

As the sect master of the previous generation of Yunxue Sect, Gu Xin should have discovered the secret of the first patriarch Zhao Lianyue by accident.

Ji Que seriously suspected that the things that were buried in the grave at the bottom of the lake before, and those things connected to the carp skin were the skin shed by the first patriarch Zhao Lianyue after becoming a human.

In short, Gu Xin discovered Zhao Lianyue's secret, so he began to study how to live forever.

And his way is alchemy, using Zhao Lianyue's flesh and blood to connect human organs to alchemy.

The exhumed flesh from the corpse in front of me is the best proof of this.

Before, in the underground Dan room, Old Man Luo felt that there was a human smell in the Dan furnace, but Ji Que put his head in, but he smelled a fishy smell.

It can be seen that there are not only people in it, but also fish.

This "fish" with human limbs in front of me.

Now it seems that Gu Xin has succeeded by alchemy and swallowing pills, and he can also shed his skin and live forever like the first patriarch Zhao Lianyue, and even occupy Chen Hanshi's body to continue to survive.

Of course, this way of immortality has the disadvantages of memory loss and itchy body, or rather, this kind of disadvantage Zhao Lianyue had at that time, but it was just because the time interval was too long and it was impossible to study.

This is Ji Que's guess about everything in front of him.

After that, he and Ning Hongyu came out of the layers of fish mouths.

After seeing the two of them come out again, Elder Xue and Old Man Luo put down their hearts that were hanging high.

At the same time, the eyes they looked at these two juniors became more and more admiring, and they could even be said to be in awe.

Today's young people are becoming more and more unreasonable.

You must know that in the era of their dominance, the cultivation world was very simple, and those with a high realm had a higher status and confidence than those with a lower realm, and it was much easier to get more money, and even to find a Taoist partner.

But the existence of Ji Que and Ning Hongyu made their worldview a little broken, as if the realm was not very valuable, and they always felt that they had been in this Yunxue Sect for too long, and they didn't know what big changes had happened outside.

In the end, the four returned to the ice.

Ji Que said what he saw and thought concisely, and the scalp of Elder Xue and his party tingled when he heard it.

The two generations of sect masters Gu Xin and Chen Hanshi are actually the same person, and it is sensational enough to survive by refining the evil pill until now, and now, you tell me that the ancestors are all carp essences, and they have been dug up by people to refine their flesh and blood?

The fact that this Yunxue Sect is a demonic lair is still a fine tradition?

What made Elder Xue even more unacceptable was that some of the information she learned seemed to confirm Ji Que's conjecture.

That is, the first patriarch Zhao Lianyue stayed in the sect, and there is a record of his life dossier - "When the patriarch Shouyuan was approaching, he once said, 'I wish to turn into a koi in the next life and protect the sect for thousands of generations.'" Then he left, buried his body in the snowy mountains, and future generations could not see it. ”。

It can be seen that what Zhao Lianyue said when he was dying was not nonsense, he really wanted to be a fish, or that he was a carp spirit, and finally wanted to return to the waters.

Naturally, his body was not buried in the snowy mountains, but in the water below.

After Ji Que finished speaking, he found that Ning Hongyu had been staring at him and said, "What, Shangfeng, do you have any objections to my statement?" ”

Ning Hongyu shook his head.

"Then why are you looking at me like that?"

"Don't you look handsome?" Ning Hongyu said confidently.

"Of course there is no problem." Ji Que replied confidently.

In fact, Ning Hongyu's reason was not complete, she stared at Ji Que, her appearance was only part of the reason, a small reason, and the bigger reason was that she felt that the other party was quite smart.

In this matter in the Yunxue Sect, she can launch a contour of right and wrong, but she is not as organized and imaginative as Ji Que.

Well, for Ji Que, it was still useful to watch a few more episodes of "Conan" and "Di Renjie" in his previous life.

You know, he was really immersed in TV at the beginning, "There is only one truth." ", and "Yuanfang, what do you think?" Again, a sense of pretending to be forced by a tiger analysis.

At this moment, a whale-like cry sounded, and all four of them were startled.

I saw a carp as big as a boat swimming in the water below.

Ning Hongyu said, "It's an illusion. ”

Elder Xue couldn't help but say, "Before that......"

Ning Hongyu said: "I always thought that this illusion was made by Chen Hanshi, and he did have this ability. Now, it seems that this is due to the dead but not stiff corpse below. ”

Compared to humans, spirits are more likely to die without stiffening, and even retain some of their previous instincts after death.

Obviously, this carp spirit should be very good at this "illusion" ability.

The so-called "She's coming out!" Is it because I saw a similar illusion?

The waters under this underground are very wide, from Chen Hanshi's secret room to the spring at the bottom of the lake, and then here, it is almost connected, and it is connected to the well in the ancestral land, but the entrance is relatively secret.

And Chen Hanshi, also known as Gu Xin, has been eating the elixir refined by Zhao Lianyue's flesh and blood, and it is also reasonable that he has gradually mastered this ability.

In the end, several people discussed it and decided to dispose of these things, especially the body of Zhao Lianyue in the deepest part of the body, which must be burned clean.

As long as all these secrets are disposed of, the Yunxue Sect is still a serious and good sect.

In other words, from today onwards, it will be a good sect with a proper name.

Even if this sect was founded by a carp spirit, and there are even more demonic people like Gu Xin who have ruled the sect for a long time, Ji Que and Ning Hongyu can see that this sect is still very humane.

Whether it is Elder Xue, Elder Wang, or this old man Luo, they all lose their chivalrous spirit.

It's just that to deal with the things below, you need enough thunder fire, especially the corpse in the deepest part, and you need to be more cautious in handling it, so Ning Hongyu decided to ask someone to bring something over to talk about it.

When the four of them came out of the water, it was dusk.

The clouds on the horizon were red, as if they had been ignited.

They had entered Chen Hanshi's secret room in the morning, and now they had come out, and it was only a day's time, but in the perception of the four people, this time was undoubtedly a long time, like months, or even years.

It's like four people who have inadvertently fallen into a river of time for thousands of years.

This river is full of dark stories, which make people's hearts happy.

And it is this kind of heart season that makes them more and more aware of the beauty of returning to the earth and returning to the world.

......

When walking on the road, Ji Que suddenly thought of a rather strange point.

That is, Gu Xin has always had a rare desire and confidence in becoming an immortal.

It stands to reason that if she only knew Zhao Lianyue's secret, then he should be pursuing immortality, not becoming an immortal.

Because even Zhao Lianyue himself didn't rise in the end, why did he think he could.

Especially later, he said, "The way to become an immortal is to be told to me by the heavenly lord himself, and I will definitely become an immortal." How to listen to how there is an evil nature.

Is there really such an old gentleman in this sky?

When Ji Que told Ning Hongyu his thoughts, Ning Hongyu pondered: "Based on your inference, Zhao Lianyue is the carp essence, and it has always possessed the ability to 'hallucinate', even after death.

And Chen Hanshi has been eating the elixir refined from its flesh and blood for a long time, and it is very likely that he will be 'poisoned' because of it.

In this case, his imagination will become extraordinarily real, that is, if he imagines something, he will think that it is real, and he imagines an old gentleman, and this old gentleman is naturally true to him. ”

This is undoubtedly a good explanation.

Everything seemed to have an answer, and Ji Que suddenly felt a lot easier.

At this time, he suddenly smelled a rich fragrance and said, "What smell?" It seems to be porridge, how can there be such a fragrant porridge in this Yunxue Sect? ”

Ning Hongyu said: "This smell is Laba porridge, although the diet here is clear, but Laba porridge is almost the same as outside." ”

Ji Que was surprised: "Ah, it's all Laba, isn't it almost the New Year?" ”

Ning Hongyu ignored him because it was nonsense.

Ji Que looked at the plump curve of her chest, and couldn't help but think of a very serious question, and said, "Shangfeng, can you change the Adam's apple?" ”

"Huh?" Ning Hongyu looked at him with a puzzled expression.

Ji Que explained: "It's the kind that is originally a woman, but can have an Adam's apple like a man, eat and talk without any problem, and be smart and free." ”

Yes, in his heart, he suddenly had some conjectures about a person.

Ning Hongyu looked at him with one eye and said, "Why are you asking this?" ”

"I'm curious and want to learn, after all, the more professional the better." Ji Que said with a serious face.

"You ask me the question of the Adam's apple, why do you keep looking at me here?" Ning Hongyu clasped his hands around his chest and said indifferently.

Her gesture can't help but be even more grandiose there.

Ji Que hurriedly looked away and denied: "How can I have ......?"

"If you lie, the promised bounty will be less than a thousand taels."

Ji Que pinched Ning Hongyu's placket, almost lifted the other party up, and exclaimed, "What, one thousand taels!" ”

After a few moments, he didn't move.

Not far away, the disciples of the Yunxue Sect who had just come out of the canteen heard his roar, and they all cast surprised looks.

This seems to be a bit against the rule that spies are too high-profile.

Ning Hongyu let him carry it like this, still looking at him with one left eye, with a cold face.

For a while, he mentioned Ning Hongyu's posture and froze there, in the eyes of those Yunxue Sect disciples, it was as beautiful as a painting......