"The fifth layer of the Heavenly Dao Trial Tower, I successfully broke through."

The desert disappeared in front of Zhou Tao's eyes and reappeared in the Heavenly Dao Tower.

"The sixth floor of the Heavenly Dao Trial Tower is open."

Zhou Tao looked at the wooden staircase that appeared in front of him, and said without the slightest hesitation: "Don't break in." ”

At this time, his goal has been achieved, and he has just fought with the Void Human-Faced Scorpion, he has been seriously injured, and he has no ability to fight again, so leaving at this moment is also the best choice.

Outside the tower.

The fifth-layer Heavenly Dao Pagoda slowly lit up, and everyone exclaimed in surprise.

"What? Actually broke through? How is this possible, it is obviously a waste without any spiritual power, how can it be possible to break into the five-story Heavenly Dao Pagoda in a row? Hu Ruojiao couldn't help but take two steps back, and her tone was full of disbelief.

"Okay, good, it's worthy of the grandson of the old shopkeeper, the posture of a saint, the posture of a saint!" Zhao Chunxiang laughed, relieved.

Zhou Tao's figure flashed and appeared outside the Heavenly Dao Tower.

", this is too spicy, isn't it?"

Everyone looked at Zhou Tao's beggar pretend, and couldn't help but sigh and smack their tongues.

"You, you're so shameless."

Even Hu Ruojiao, who was still annoyed, saw Zhou Tao in this outfit, and hurriedly turned around to hide his face, and his disgust for Zhou Tao became even heavier.

"I'll go."

Seeing everyone's reactions, Zhou Tao was also shocked, glanced down, and hurriedly covered his important parts with his hands.

"Ahem."

Old man Zhao Chunxiang was also a little embarrassed, coughed dryly twice, and hurriedly took out a set of tunics and threw them to Zhou Tao.

"Hurry up and return it, such an adult, why do you still like to run barefoot."

Zhou Tao's old face turned red and hurriedly put on his clothes.

After getting dressed, Zhou Tao looked at Hu Quan and Hu Ruojiao.

"Now that I've passed the five-story Heavenly Dao Tower trial, can I be the young shopkeeper of this Heavenly Being?"

Hu Quan's face was ugly, he didn't want to admit it, but he had a word first, and he still made a bet with the juniors, and the hall masters here were watching, and he couldn't break his promise.

"What I said, it naturally counts, but we still have Mingtang's matter unresolved, and when you solve it together, it's not too late to talk about the matter of the shopkeeper."

Hu Quan's eyes flashed with a trace of ruthlessness that was not easy for outsiders to detect, he wanted to find an incompleteable task for Zhou Tao, so that Zhou Tao would die in the task, so that no one would rob Mingtang and the young shopkeeper.

"That's okay, you draw the next road, and I'll take it all, master." Zhou Tao said provocatively.

The corners of Hu Quan's mouth rose slightly: "I'm afraid you won't dare to take it." ”

"It's not up to you to decide whether you dare or not, sir, I never know how to write the words I'm afraid of."

"Okay, for the sake of the old shopkeeper's face, I don't embarrass you, recently I came to report in your Mingtang, saying that there are some strange phenomena in Phoenix Village in Xishan, but Mingtang has not found out yet, since you want to take over Mingtang, then this matter is also within your account."

"Xishan Phoenix Village?" Zhou Tao is very unfamiliar with this place name.

When Zhao Chunxiang heard this place, his face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said to Zhou Tao: "Xiao Tao, you must not agree to this, the water in Phoenix Village is too deep, and it is not something you can deal with now." ”

After talking to Zhou Tao, Zhao Chunxiang glared at Hu Quan angrily and said: "You are embarrassed to say that you are an elder, Xiao Tao, he doesn't know Phoenix Village, but who of you present doesn't know the weirdness of Phoenix Village. ”

Hu Quan spread his hands and said innocently: "Master Zhao, it's not that I don't give young people a chance, since Zhou Tao wants to be the hall master of this Mingtang, then Mingtang has to solve a problem, right?" ”

"You ......"

Zhao Chunxiang also wanted to continue to fight with Hu Quan, but Zhou Tao pulled his sleeve.

"Okay, I promise you."

Zhou Tao looked at Hu Quan proudly.

In fact, Zhou Tao can't help it, Hu Quan is clearly a conspiracy, if he doesn't agree, he can't do it, if he doesn't agree, it will seem that Zhou Tao is incompetent, so even if he finally takes charge of Mingtang, Zhou Tao is just a puppet, obviously this is not what Zhou Tao wants.

"Okay, sure enough, he has the demeanor of an old shopkeeper, he is really quick to talk and decisive enough." The corners of Hu Quan's mouth showed a hint of joy, he was sure that Zhou Tao would definitely die if he took this task.

"Oh, you're confused." Zhao Chunxiang patted his knees and shook his head, wanting to scold Zhou Tao but didn't know where to start, he knew how dangerous Phoenix Village was.

Zhou Tao patted the back of Zhao Chunxiang's hand and comforted him: "Grandpa Zhao, don't worry, I will definitely solve this matter safely." ”

"Since I have agreed to the conditions, I hope that you will also keep your promises when the time comes."

Hu Quan looked at the hall masters behind him and said, "Naturally. ”

"Let's go, Grandpa Zhao."

Out of Tiancheng Commerce, Zhou Tao and Zhao Chunxiang came to where Zhao Chunxiang lived.

This is a villa estate located on the outskirts of the city.

Sitting on the sofa, Zhou Tao looked at Zhao Chunxiang and asked, "Grandpa Zhao, what's going on in this Phoenix Village?" Why are you so jealous of there?"

Zhao Chunxiang said to Zhou Tao with a solemn face: "Since the matter has come to this, I will tell you about this Phoenix Village." ”

"This Phoenix Village came into our field of vision three years ago, when the military came and said that they wanted us to help investigate a case in Phoenix Village.

In other words, the largest real estate development company in the Northwest, Emgrand Real Estate, you know? ”

Zhou Tao nodded, he still knew about this real estate development company, in the northwest, some relatively high-end communities were built by this real estate company.

Seeing Zhou Tao nodding, Zhao Chunxiang continued: "On this Emgrand Real Estate, I saw the beautiful scenery of Phoenix Village, so I wanted to build a tourist resort in Phoenix Village.

Since the whole village moved out due to the plague in the sixties and seventies, Phoenix Village has been abandoned, and Emgrand Real Estate has successfully built a tourist resort there.

At the beginning, the construction went quite smoothly, but when they dug up the ancestral hall in the village, something strange happened, under the ancestral hall, the construction team dug up a large amount of glutinous rice, and also dug up a blood-red coffin.

The strange thing also started when this blood-red coffin was dug up. ”

"What the hell is weird?" Zhou Tao couldn't help but ask.

"This strange thing is evil, there were a total of eleven people involved in the excavation at that time, and these eleven people all had high fever to varying degrees after digging up this coffin, and after the high fever, these people's temperament changed greatly, as if they were a different person."

"Could it be that you have been taken by a ghost?" Zhou Tao put forward his own speculation.

Zhao Chunxiang shook his head: "At first, we thought the same thing, but later we visited these eleven families one by one, and we didn't find any signs of them being possessed by ghosts.

On the contrary, these people have a strange characteristic, that is, they love to drink water, they keep drinking water, their stomachs are almost bursting with water, and they still keep drinking, as long as they don't give them water to drink, they even bite their own blood vessels and drink their own blood. ”

"Hey, is it so evil?" Zhou Tao couldn't help but feel a little hairy in his heart.

"Not only them, but even the members of the Ming Hall we went to investigate have all suffered from this thirsty water disease.

Originally, we thought that although we love to drink water, it is not impossible to solve it if we study it carefully.

But the strange thing is that all the people who suffered from thirst for water went missing one night, and according to the surveillance, all of them went to Phoenix Village that night.

After getting this news, we sent five masters of Mingtang, along with two squads of the military, a group of fifteen people entered Phoenix Village to investigate.

But as soon as we entered the confines of Phoenix Village, all the signals disappeared, and we lost contact with those fifteen people, so far, all the people have not come out, and we have never sent anyone to investigate. ”

Zhou Tao nodded after hearing this and said, "According to what you said, Grandpa Zhao, this Phoenix Village is indeed full of weirdness. ”

"So, it's because of the danger that I didn't let you agree, why are you so reckless?" Zhao Chunxiang complained again that Zhou Tao was disobedient.

"Grandpa Zhao, although things are a little tricky, I'm not a paper paste, and I'm not so easy to defeat, so let's prepare today, and I'll go to Phoenix Village in Naxi Mountain tomorrow to have a look."

Helpless, Zhao Chunxiang had to agree.

Early the next morning, when Zhou Tao woke up and came to the courtyard, he saw more than 20 people wearing field uniforms and fully armed standing outside.

Grandpa Zhao was standing in front of these people and saying something.

Zhou Tao walked over and asked, "Grandpa Zhao, what is this for?"

Zhao Chunxiang turned around: "Xiao Tao woke up?" How did you sleep last night? ”

Zhou Tao nodded: "It's good, you haven't said what these people do?" ”

"Okay, these people are all candidates I picked for you to enter the village this time, and these people are all elites carefully selected by me." Zhao Chunxiang pointed to the people in the courtyard and said.

Zhou Tao smiled bitterly: "Grandpa Zhao, I'm going to investigate, not to attack the village, why are you bringing so many people?" And it's really gunshot, and those who don't know think it's a terrorist attack. ”

Zhao Chunxiang said: "That place is unpredictable, be careful to sail the 10,000-year-old ship, and bring more people, it is quite necessary." ”

In the end, Zhou Tao still failed to persuade Old Man Zhao and promised to take eight people to go, Tang Can also volunteered to go with Zhou Tao, but there was no way, Zhou Tao could only agree.

Old man Zhou also stuffed a pistol for Zhou Tao: "This gun was given by an old friend of mine, and today Grandpa Zhao will give it to you for self-defense." ”

Zhou Tao waved his hand again and again: "Grandpa Zhao, I won't use this gun, it's enough for me to have Long Yuan." Zhou Tao patted the black broken knife on his back.

"If you take it, you can take it, you won't use it, can't you be a talisman?" Zhao Chunxiang said with a straight face.

Helpless, Zhou Tao still took the silver pistol and inserted it in his waist, Zhou Tao didn't study the gun, so he didn't know what model this pistol was.

Seeing Zhou Tao put away the gun, Zhao Chunxiang showed a knowing smile this time, handed Zhou Tao another box and said: This is a space capsule, you can put those things here. ”

At nine o'clock in the morning, Zhou Tao and a group of ten people embarked on a trip to Xishan.