Volume 1: Illuminating Mountains and Rivers Chapter 61 The Place of Hideout
In the wooden building, there was silence at this time, and a bunch of eyes with a look of surprise fell on Ji Yuan's body.
In these eyes, there were not only Xu Qiqi's incomprehension, but also Jiang He's doubts, as well as the surprise of the martial artists of the courtyard, who seemed to have not expected that he would suddenly say such a sentence.
Even the river that proposed at the beginning to go deep into the mansion and fight to the death against evil creatures was a little confused at this time.
Ki Yuan...... I didn't even think about it, you won't really listen to it, will you? ”
Jiang He scratched his head, obviously because even he knew a little bit of his fault.
However, Ji Yuan shook his head, then slowly got up from the ground, and walked to the door of the wooden building with a little limp.
He looked through the smashed wooden door and saw a mortal purgatory, the air filled with rancid and foul stench, and even though it was still night, he could see a layer of ash wafting over the mansion.
"Zhao Wuxian may have been calculated, he wants to take away Zhao Yuebai, who has been carefully cultivated for many years, but he doesn't know that the evil thing he cooperates with, or the person behind the evil thing, has always been just playing with him like a fool."
Ji Yuan turned around and looked at the people in the wooden building with a solemn face.
After learning about everything that had happened in the Zhao family in the past two days, as well as Zhao Wuxian's plan, he actually had a little conjecture in his heart.
That Zhao Wuxian had obviously made some kind of deal with the evil thing a few years ago, and that time he went on a long trip to find the body he wanted to take away in the future.
There is no doubt that Zhao Yuebai is the one who is the most perfect object.
Everything that happened to the Zhao family at the moment was caused by Zhao Wuxian single-handedly, but how could it not be the scene that the evil thing and the scheming people behind it were willing to see?
The person who is really going to take away Zhao Yuebai should be that evil thing!
"That man wants to make the monster a god, so it doesn't seem incomprehensible to try to make the monster take away the adult."
Ji Yuan thought to himself, and gradually understood the thoughts of the person who was secretly plotting in his heart.
The other party must be plotting something, and whether it is a demon becoming a god or an evil adult, it will definitely be a very important part of it.
Even he had already thought of Baiyun Temple at this moment, I am afraid that the person in the dark still wants to let some existence replace the monks in the temple and have an alternative 'Buddhahood'.
"Since the change of the Zhao family, that evil thing should have begun to take away, since we are allowed to exist here, it is likely that we have reached a critical moment, and we can't be distracted by others to deal with us."
Ji Yuan showed a solemn look on his face, and bluntly said that they might not have time to wait for Zhao Yuansong and the others.
This is also why he agrees with Jiang He's idea, wanting to go deep into the mansion and fight the evil thing to the death, otherwise if the other party is allowed to take it smoothly, everyone present will be liquidated.
And the evil thing that is taking away the critical moment is not the weakest moment, but it will definitely be limited everywhere, and it will be their only chance to turn the tables.
As for why he didn't leave the Zhao family first, he would make plans after meeting with other helpers.
Ji Yuan didn't think that the person who was secretly plotting would let them leave like this, and would not obstruct them, or even simply kill them.
"Is there anything we can do?"
The middle-aged nurse stepped forward and stood in front of Ji Yuan with a solemn expression.
Behind him, except for a few young people who had collapsed and had fallen asleep, the rest of the more than a dozen martial artists were waiting with solemn expressions on their faces.
They came silently, silently waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity for them to pay for their sins and avenge the dead.
Ji Yuan looked at these people deeply, in his heart, he didn't actually have much trust in them, no matter how sincere the other party was, he couldn't see the deepest true thoughts through people's hearts.
All of this is nothing but their own words, and only these people themselves know what the truth is, whether they were involuntary at the time.
But now he really needs all the help he can get.
So after a long silence, he nodded his head: "Get ready, let's go together later." ”
The middle-aged nurse bowed his head, and when he turned around, he glanced at Ji Yuan with a complicated gaze, obviously knowing what he was thinking, but he didn't explain too much.
"Be careful for a while, after all, it's also an evil creature of at least two realms."
Ji Yuan took out a large handful of talismans and handed them to Jiang He, and said to the two people in front of him.
Hearing this, Xu Qiqi and Jiang He nodded, naturally there was no way to underestimate it, whether it was the usual teaching of the teacher, or the words and deeds of several senior brothers and sisters along the way, they all understood the truth that the lion needs to do their best to fight the rabbit.
What's more, the next thing to face is an evil thing with at least two realm cultivation, even if they have a lot of restraint means in their hands, but if they really fight head-on, it is still a situation of more than one bad luck.
After a while, more than ten people walked out of the wooden building one after another, in addition to Ji Yuan and the three, there were a total of thirteen Zhao family's nursing house martial artists, as for the others, they were left to take care of the wooden building.
The group walked towards the depths of the house, although the Zhao family was large, there were no twists and turns, and there was no need to carefully explore anything.
In any case, this is a county town in the territory of the Dayu Dynasty, even if it is unbearable, it has been secretly planned for a long time, it is good to be able to arrange these demons and ghosts, and it is impossible to have more in number.
After all, the imperial court institutions that supervise a place are not the kind of wine bags and rice bags that eat and wait for death, watching a large number of evil things gather in the county without the slightest notice.
However, when a group of people came to the depths of the house, where the evil spirit was at its strongest, they did not find anything suspicious except in a quiet courtyard.
There are no evil things here, and there is no Zhao Yuebai who is being taken away, let alone a living person, and I haven't even seen a strange existence.
In the huge courtyard, in addition to a few luxurious houses, there is only a hundred-year-old locust tree, standing quietly in the courtyard, with a little wind at night, and constantly shaking the treetops full of branches and leaves.
Such a calm scene made the martial artists who had already been prepared to die generously feel a little uncomfortable, as if their enthusiasm and ambition had finally become a kind of useless work.
This kind of charging punch only to end up in the empty space is not a pleasant feeling.
"How is it a little different from what you imagined?"
Jiang He scratched his head and couldn't help muttering softly.
In his original imagination, not to mention the gloomy ghost, it should be about the same, there is an evil wind and yin qi whistling everywhere, the huge altar is dyed with black and red blood, and a strange-looking evil creature is taking away the evil art.
But the real situation is that the whole courtyard is silent, like a house that has been vacant for a long time, except for a lush old locust tree, there is no life in sight.
But speaking of which, I don't know if it's everyone's illusion, when they stand under the old locust tree, their state of mind suddenly becomes quiet.
It was like the sea that should have set off turbulent waves, but suddenly became calm, and the sky that was originally cloudy was clear in the blink of an eye.
No one will be surprised by this, the locust tree has the effect of a town, and the hundred-year-old locust tree is even more so.
If it weren't for the fact that the evil thing had the cultivation of the two realms, and there was Zhao Wuxian Neiying, otherwise ordinary demons and evil ghosts would have been difficult to invade the Zhao family's house at all, and would have been affected by this centuries-old locust tree.
"Daoist Ji, we have searched this place, but we can't find anything suspicious, and we haven't found the existence of a secret room in the tunnel."
The middle-aged nurse stepped forward and said in a deep voice beside Ji Yuan.
When he heard this, he frowned slightly, and when he thought about it, he subconsciously looked behind him, it wasn't because of this old locust tree that he forced the evil thing to change to another place to do something else, right?
But whether it is the feng shui of the Zhao family's mansion or the direction of the yin wind and evil spirit here, they will eventually converge here, and it will undoubtedly be the best choice if they want to carry out things such as seizing the house.
What's more, although the old locust tree can ward off evil spirits in the house, it also has the power to gather the aura of the four directions.
In Qianyu City, I don't know how many cultivators covet this old locust tree, but because of the prestige of the Zhao family, they can only think about it in their hearts.
Although the evil thing is said to be an evil thing, once it is successfully reborn, it will be 'reborn' as a human being, and naturally it will require a lot of spiritual energy.
"Something is wrong......"
Ji Yuan sighed, and suddenly turned around and looked at the entire courtyard.
This place is the depths of the Zhao family's house, and it is also the center of feng shui fortune, which has the effect of gathering the aura of the four directions, whether it is the yin wind and evil qi, or the wisps of aura, will eventually gather here.
But at this time, he only saw those things coming together, but he didn't see where they ended up, neither accumulating here nor giving back to the surrounding world.
So in this way, where did all these gathered heaven and earth aura, as well as the yin wind and evil qi, go in the end?
Ji Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly, and a conjecture suddenly appeared in his heart, and then he slowly turned around, and his eyes fell on the old locust tree that had lived for hundreds of years.
His thoughts moved slightly, and there was a bronze oil lamp in his body that was integrated into his palm, and a wisp of fire spontaneously ignited, and the faint light of the fire reflected on Zhang Xu Fangyuan.
Then Ji Yuan raised the bronze oil lamp in front of him, and the flame was just between his eyes.
Through this faint light of fire, a layer of blinding yellow bubbles withdrew, and immediately he saw that everything gathered here was slowly merging into the trunk of the old locust tree, and then spreading all the way down to the ground along its roots.
"Down there!"
Seeing this scene, he immediately let out a low sigh.
Hearing this, the middle-aged nurse's expression moved, and then he shouted in a deep voice: "Stomp!" ”
More than ten of the weakest are all in the early stage of the Skin and Flesh Realm, and three of them are martial artists in the middle of the Skin and Flesh Realm, and at this moment, they all raised their feet and stomped on them, and the earth suddenly shook in a loud sound.
"Stomp again!"
A group of people were silent, they didn't need to be reminded, they raised their feet neatly and then stomped hard, and their strength could be described as unreserved.
And with their concerted efforts, several breaking sounds quietly appeared, mixed with a dull sound.
"Retreat!"
After half a moment, the middle-aged nursing home shouted, and everyone quickly retreated back.
At this moment, the place where everyone was originally standing collapsed with a loud bang, and for a moment the dust was all over the sky, and then there was a more violent yin wind and evil qi roaring up, rushing straight to the sky.
When the dust cleared, a group of people saw that where they had been standing before, a large pit had collapsed at this moment, and there was a pitch-black space underground, which was bubbling outward.
Just by looking at the hollow in the ground, a chill rose in everyone's hearts for no reason, as if there was some terrifying existence in it.
Ji Yuan shook his sleeves, and even a few talismans fell, and they automatically floated beside everyone without wind, and then the talismans in them ignited, turning into a bright fire.
"Let's go, go down and have a look!"
Ji Yuan spoke calmly, and then took the lead in jumping down the big pit in front of him.
With a snap of his fingers, he landed steadily, a ball of fire following him, and as a martial artist of the Meigo Temple landed, several firelights converged and illuminated this underground space.
"I've been in the Zhao family for so many years, but I've never heard of such a big place underground."
The middle-aged nurse muttered to himself, looking at the underground space that had exceeded the area of the courtyard on the ground, his expression couldn't help but be slightly stunned.
He was even a little skeptical of what he had seen in front of him, he had been in the Zhao family for nearly thirty years, if Zhao Wuxian wanted to excavate such a huge space, even if it was in the form of secret, it was impossible for him not to hear about it at all.
"This place...... It seems that the roots of the old locust tree have expanded! ”
Jiang He muttered to himself, and his eyes fell on the dense roots of the surrounding loess.
It is precisely because of these roots that a space larger than a courtyard can exist underground.
"Look! There's a passage there! ”
Xu Qiqi pointed to the distance, and he could see a passage that emitted a faint light without even the firelight.
On it is still the roots of the old locust tree, and you can faintly see the fire at the end.