Qin Xuan stared at the wooden box under the confession, and first opened the box on the right, but it turned out to be empty. She went to open the box on the left again, and there were nine silk scrolls inside, all of which were genealogies.

Qin Xuan was slightly disappointed, but also briefly flipped through it.

The scroll charts the personnel of the nine surname families, namely, Shang, Lu, Zhang, Sun, Liu, Li, Zhou, Wang, and Lü.

The ancestors of each surname, Shangyu (Gongying) with Liu's Sanniang, Lu Changgong with Li Xiang, Zhang Songlin (Yiwen) with Liu's Shulan, Sun Shanyou with Zhou Ruilan, Liu Chaoxian (Yusheng) with Lu's Yaer, Li Tie with Wang Sini, Zhou Tong with Sun Damei, Wang Qiang with Zhang Lanlan, Lv Qisheng (Tianyi) with Kong's Qingmei.

Among them, the Shang family was cut off from the 78th generation, the Zhou family to the 54th generation, the Wang family to the 63rd generation, the Lu family to the 36th generation, and the remaining 87 generations.

It is worth noting that some of the names on the genealogy are red, and Qin Xuan did not find their names compared to the spiritual seats on the bronze leaf disk.

Qin Xuan guessed that these red-named clansmen should have made serious mistakes, so that the tablet could not enter the ancestral hall.

At this time, she saw Gongsun Zhi take out the silk silk from the spiritual seat, and thought that the box on the right contained the notes of the Hongming clan, which must have recorded important information, otherwise it would not have disappeared.

She told Gongsun Zhi what she had found, and he thought the information was useful, so he decided to look up from the former descendants of Red Name, and by the way, see how these families were cut off. Qin Zhaoyun finished taking the photo and searched for information with Gongsun Zhi.

But Qin Xuan was not interested in how these people didn't have them, she wanted to know more about how these people came from. So he climbed up the bronze tree to see the spiritual seats of the nine ancestors.

"Hey!" Qin Xuan was shocked, "It's so heavy!" It must be pure gold! I really respect my ancestors. ”

It was too tiring to move the spirit seat down like this, so she simply pulled open the bottom cover directly on it and took out all the scrolls in the nine spirit seats. Unexpectedly, Lu Changgong and Liu Chaoxian's spiritual seats each hid a rectangular wooden plaque, one side was blank, and one side was carved with a lotus flower, and there was a smell similar to that of big material.

When she saw that the wooden sign was nothing special, she thought it was the private property of her ancestors, so she took it in her hand first. She couldn't wait to open the scroll and read it carefully, there were not many words, and after reading them all, Qin Xuan understood the origin of these people.

Li Tie, Zhou Tong, and Wang Qiang were forcibly conscripted into hard labor, and later rebelled with the peasants and were captured by the official army. On the way to exile, he escaped and came to the Shangyu area of Jiangdong to become a fisherman.

Shang Yu and Lu Changgong were blacksmiths, Zhang Songlin and Liu Chaoxian were merchants, and Sun Shanyou was a carpenter. Lu Qisheng was originally a county lieutenant, but because he did not go along with the county order, he was demoted to a prison officer and guarded the cell.

They were only three years apart, and they happened to enter Nanhua Garden one after another, and became a believer in one of the Four Saints. Since then, they have sincerely worshiped Nanhua Garden, and gradually turned from believers to disciples, including their children.

Many years later, only Shang Yu and Lu Qisheng of the nine people were alive, and they were already over eighty years old. The Four Sages led the descendants of the nine people into the Dongtianfu Land to escape the troubled times, and assigned them to Quemu Mountain, and Lu Qisheng became the first generation of mountain masters.

There are also nine people who have done some things for the heavenly disabled real people, but they only use the abbreviated words "righteous deeds, Dharma deeds, and working together".

Qin Xuan estimated that their rank as disciples was not high, and they were just following orders to do things.

However, after reading the scroll, there was no record of the two wooden cards, but the woman's sixth sense thought that the wooden cards were not ordinary wooden cards, and they must have a certain effect. She bowed to the spiritual seat three times and put the wooden plaque in her bag.

On the other side, Gongsun Zhi also had eyebrows, and he touched the melons along the vine, and basically sorted out what happened here.

When the merchant turned 6 years old in the 78th generation, the depth of the underground mine reached exactly 100 meters. But it also encountered a hard rock layer, and there was no possibility of digging down. If you want to get mine, there are only two options, one is to dig in the direction of the river, and the other is to dig into the ground of the forbidden mountain.

Option 1: Ore is scarce, and there is a risk of river backfilling.

Option 2: Ore is abundant, especially gold. But if you dig it, you will be violating the ancestral teachings "You must not dig up gold." ”

At first, most people did not agree with the second option, but later someone violated the ancestral teachings and mined privately, and the leader should be the red-named Shang Chi.

The punishment for violating the ancestral teachings soon came, and in the autumn of that year, more than a dozen members of the merchant died violently overnight, and the cause of death was the vicious plague in the golden vein.

Merchants ended in this generation, but the evil epidemic did not dissipate with it. The population of other families was violated to varying degrees, and the population was halved within two years.

In the process of fighting the vicious epidemic, Yuyin Zhenren discovered that gold can avoid the epidemic and eliminate the epidemic with medicine, so he digs for gold. However, after four generations, the gold was exhausted, leading to an even greater disaster.

In order to dig for gold, the mine went deep into the underground of the forbidden land of the secluded mountain, and dug into the partition formed by the roots of the tree, which was so large that no matter how much it was dug, it could not be bypassed. But someone brutally cut off the roots of the tree and continued to go deeper.

However, Yuyin Zhenren never really understood the root of the evil plague, and never thought about what would happen once the gold that restrained the evil plague was hollowed out.

The evil plague actually fused with the broken root and grew into a tentacle-like thorn vine, which everyone called the demon thorn.

It is like a living earthworm that pierces through the mountains and into the earth, can entangle all life that comes near it, and once it feeds on flesh, it grows incredibly fast. It can also dig roots into the bones of people and animals.

If people and animals are stabbed by it, it is like planting roots in the body, and if they are not treated within two days, it is difficult for the gods to save them. The roots invade the bloodstream and re-enter the bones, spreading throughout the body for about 20 days.

During this time, people and animals will be greatly affected, and animals will be very thirsty and will drink water until they drown. People are not only thirsty, but also eat blood with their hair, and from time to time the whole body itches to make people crazy, and the longer the time, the more time and frequency of itching.

When the roots invade the brain, humans and animals walk aimlessly all day long, killing and eating every living thing they come across.

After another ten days or so, several wattle vines will emerge from the body, like the tentacles of an octopus replacing limbs, and it will run around like an ant. And the flesh on the body was quickly sucked clean, and only a pair of bones remained.

They are afraid of the scorching sun and become slow to move on sand. But in the rain and in the water, they can become powerful and move quickly.

The way to destroy them is to pierce the bones with gold, and then use the bamboo of the green bamboo forest to burn the bones to ashes, otherwise there is a possibility of resurrection in the water.

Six people went missing from several families before they found the thorn. So he gathered the strength of all families, killed and injured dozens of people, and finally sanitized the demon thorn, and the remnants were sealed in gold in the cave where the demon thorn originated.

However, away from the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered. Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate.

The roots of the thorn are still there, and there will be a day when the ground will be broken.

The 86th generation was clearly ill-prepared for this catastrophe. What I didn't expect even more was that the demon thorn had evolved and had a certain amount of intelligence.

The demon thorn avoids the edge of its human beings, constantly encroaching on the survival resources of human beings, and at the same time strengthens itself.

For a few years, people were confined to gold-encrusted houses, and they could only look for food during the four or five hours when the sun was at its strongest.

It is estimated that Demon Thorn quickly found a way to break through the restriction and killed the only remaining human beings in the Cave Heaven Mansion.

Gongsun Zhi suddenly became agitated, and thought to himself, "Could it be that Jiang Jinjiu was taken away by the Demon Thorn!" He was the only one of the four who did not have gold ornaments on his body. ”

Thinking that Jiang Jinjiu might be more auspicious, Gongsun Zhi felt melancholy, but when he thought that Li Er followed Jiang Jinjiu, he had some hope.

"What people!"

Suddenly, Qin Zhaoyun shouted, and he saw a black shadow flashing at the door, and immediately chased after him.

Gongsun Zhi and Qin Xuan followed, and as soon as they went out, they saw a black shadow shuttling rapidly in the shadows, running towards the east.

The three of them chased after each other, and they couldn't see what the thing looked like. But it kept walking through the trees along the road leading to the nameless peak, and did not enter the dense forest, which made the three of them think it was deliberately guiding them.

Qin Xuan said as he ran, "This guy won't be taking us into the ditch." ”

Gongsun Zhi said, "It's not good to say, let's chase it first, if it runs into the forest, we must not chase it in." You have to distance yourself first, Zhaoyun, you are in the lead. ”

Qin Zhaoyun answered, quickened his pace and ran ahead. The three of them pulled away in column and chased after the thing.

However, the slope of the road is getting higher and higher, affecting the speed of the three people, but it is not affected, and the distance between them is getting farther and farther.

Soon the three of them chased to the foot of the mountain, and looked at the steps of a mountain!

But it is completely unaffected by the slope of the mountain, and it bounces up the mountain in a ball, and there are more than a dozen steps in one jump. At this moment, it jumped halfway up the mountain, and it was already a black dot in the eyes of the three of them, and disappeared at the end in a flash.

The three of them gasped as they looked at the ladder-like steps.

The mountain in front of you is less than 400 meters high, but it is extremely steep. The shape of the mountain is like a bucket with a lid, and it is surrounded by steep cliffs on all sides, except for the north side, which protrudes about 4 meters wide, and is shaped like a triangular bracket installed on the bucket, with a slope of about 50 degrees. People dig out stone steps on the slope to lead to the peak, the width of the steps is more than two meters, there is no protection on both sides, the height of the steps is higher than usual, and the legs of the steps have to be straightened.

Qin Xuan's feet hung half on the steps, so steep and narrow, it must not be easy to climb.

She took a sip of water and rebuked, "What the hell is this thing, what kind of fame is it that leads us up the mountain?" ”

Qin Zhaoyun said, "I don't think it's hostile to us, maybe it wants to avoid it, but unfortunately it was targeted by us." ”

Gongsun Zhi took a sip of cold water, and suddenly had a little more thought, and said happily, "Maybe Xiaojiang was brought to the mountain by it." ”

The siblings' eyes widened, thinking that there was really such a possibility.

The thing didn't make a loud noise when it was moving quickly, and it silently took people away, which is theoretically valid.

The three of them adjusted their breathing and climbed the stone staircase.

Up to the mountainside, the shape of the mountain was clear, and the three of them looked uneasy.

There are many trees on the mountain wall, but most of them are dead, and some of the trees have their roots outside, and the treetops are on the mountain wall.

What is unusual is that these trees are entwined with black vine branches, and dead trees are pierced by vine branches, but the vine branches do not cling to the mountain wall at all. The trees and vine branches are strung together, and the whole mountain is almost enveloped. If you don't get closer, you can see that the original color of the mountain is light yellow.

The three of them felt that the tree did not grow on the mountain wall, but was tied to it by black vines, as if the black vines could not touch the mountain wall, so they used the tree as a foothold.

But if the black vine is a demon thorn, and the record says that it is afraid of the sun, how can you climb the mountain and attach the cliff? If not, why is it growing like this? How did the tree move up? If it's really a demon thorn, is this going to swallow this mountain?

The three of them were full of questions and silently climbed the mountain.