So the two of them wandered around the mountain, made a big circle, turned back up the mountain, and arrived at the site where the tower was built, which was a flat field on the top of the mountain, where countless ragged men were carrying stones.

Up close, the tower is even taller, smaller and smaller the higher it goes, surrounded by square window openings.

An old man in blue with gray hair sat on a rock, holding a drawing in both hands, and in front of him stood an ugly middle-aged man, the two of them studying the drawing.

Zhici's face suddenly turned pale, and he said softly: "That person is the leader of the Strange Wood Mountain, the Strange King, in the battle of the Xisha Desert, he fought with several people in the Demon Dao and our Airen Temple, and the two uncles of Desireless and Fruitless were killed by them. ”

Yan Mo was stunned and asked, "Is it the old man who is sitting?" ”

Zhici shook his head and said, "No, it's another." ”

Yan Mo sighed, when she was in the Xisha Desert, all factions fought separately, she only remembered the demon queen Liu Shangfeng who ate the demon lake, and other people had no impression, thinking that if Liu Shangfeng was in front of her at this time, she would definitely go crazy again, so she was relieved: "Senior Brother Zhici, don't be impatient, don't show your secrets." ”

Zhici adjusted his mood, his face returned to calm, and said, "I'll take care of myself." ”

The two of them studied the drawings for a while, and the strange king walked away, and the old man in blue rolled up the drawings, hid them in his sleeves, and got up to look at the tower in a daze.

The people carried large and small stones from the main entrance of the tower into the tower, and some busy figures could be faintly seen at the top of the tower.

The old man looked at it for a moment, then turned and walked to the side.

Yan Mo and Zhici glanced at each other and followed silently.

The old man in blue walked down a section of stone steps down the top of the mountain, and in a basin, there was a strange complex of buildings, some like Ao Bao, some like a broken ship, some like a tomb, and some like a huge boot.

The old man walked into a house that looked like a gossip furnace, Yan Mo and Zhici lifted their minds, followed them, looked around the door, and flashed in.

The old man was already sitting in front of a desk, holding a book and looking at it, when he saw the two of them come in, he asked, "Is there something wrong with you?" ”

Yan Mo arched his hand and said, "Dare to ask the senior, but is it Master Qiu, a stonemason?" ”

The old man was stunned and said, "I have been on the mountain for more than two years, how can you not know me?" I am Qiu Zhi. ”

Yan Mo said: "The famous craftsman Qiu Liuke is your ancestor? ”

The old man became more and more puzzled, and said, "Exactly, what are you going to do?" ”

Yan Mo stretched out his hand, took out the sword, flashed, and had reached the side of the old man Qiu Zhi, the old man was horrified, and was about to shout, the sword with green light had reached his throat, and Zhici also followed, standing in front of Qiu Zhi.

Qiu Zhi trembled and asked, "You, who are you?" ”

Zhizi said: "I want your ancestors to build the immortal post archway, how much merit you have made, but you have insulted your ancestors and let the devil drive away." ”

Qiu Zhi calmed down and said, "It seems that the two of you are from the righteous path. ”

sighed, and said: "It's not that I don't know right and wrong, it's really helpless, the strange king has imprisoned my children and grandchildren for eighteen mouths, if I don't obey him, they will be in different places." ”

Yan Mo asked, "Where are they imprisoned?" ”

Qiu Zhi glanced at the green light sword and said, "Can you take the sword away?" Let's talk slowly. ”

Yan Mo hesitated for a moment and put away his sword.

Qiu Zhi sat down and said, "It's on this mountain, I don't know the specific location, the strange king only asked me to concentrate on building this Tianmu Tower, and when the tower is completed, he will let me and my children and grandchildren go back." ”

Yan Mo said: "How long will it take for this tower to be completed?" ”

Qiu Zhi said: "It's just between these three or two days. ”

Yan Mo said: "What is the use of this Tianmu Tower? ”

Qiu Zhi said: "According to the strange king, this tower is his collection of a hundred years of painstaking design, the upper can gather the energy of the sun and the moon, the lower can gather the energy of the mountains and rivers, practice in the tower, twice the result with half the effort, maybe there are other uses, I don't know." ”

Then he asked, "What are you looking for me?" ”

Zhici coughed and said: "Five years ago, the immortal post archway was damaged by the god of death temple, and it has not been repaired, the drawing was originally given by the fairy on Tongtian Island, and it was originally gone, and the copy was in the hands of your ancestor Mr. Qiu Liu, after hundreds of years, Qiu's predecessors must have passed away, I don't know if that drawing has been passed on to you." ”

Qiu Zhi said: "The ancestors did pass down a copy of the drawing, but the world has been in turmoil over the years, and my family has been running around for many years and accidentally lost the drawing." ”

Zhici and Yan Mo glanced at each other, looking quite disappointed.

Qiu Zhi said: "But I have seen that picture, because I see its exquisiteness, so sooner or later to figure out, the size of the structure has long been familiar with the chest, when the project here is completed, my 18 children and grandchildren have to get rid of the devil's cave, I will follow you to the fairy post to repair the archway, do not teach the delay of the end of the island landing plan. ”

The two were overjoyed and said, "Thank you, Master Qiu, for your success." ”

At this time, the door of the house opened, and the ugly strange king walked in, and when he saw Yan Mo and Zhici, his face was suspicious, and he asked, "What are you two doing here?" ”

The two were about to speak, but Qiu Zhi preemptively said: "They are here to ask about some engineering matters." ”

The two hurriedly said, "Yes, Master Qiu, the little ones are leaving!" ”

After saying that, he withdrew.

The two returned to the quarry, found Ren Zifei and the four of them, and while pretending to supervise their work, they whispered what they had discovered, and discussed for a while, because they didn't know where Qiu Zhi's children and grandchildren were imprisoned, so they could only wait for the completion of the Tianmu Tower before making plans.

Three days later, the last boulder was inlaid on the top of the Tianmu Tower, and the disciples of Weimu Mountain carried a large copper pot with a diameter of more than one zhang from nowhere.

It is not accurate to say that the pot is actually planted, because in the middle of the pot is planted a tower-like thing, which is more than a zhang high, and the bottom is about the size of a basin, gradually getting smaller and smaller, and at the top, it is as thin as a needle cone.

The surface of the pot is polished like a mirror, reflecting the sun's rays and dazzling the eyes.

The strange king personally instructed the people to hang this cauldron to the top of the tower with a rope and install it on it, and the Tianmu Tower was completely completed.

The people cheered and could finally go home.

The strange king stood on a high platform, three people stood on the left and right, all wearing metal hoods, covering their faces, and the shapes of the hoods were horses, cows, sheep, pigs, dogs, and chickens.

Five years ago, the strange king was ordered by Lady Qianying, and the demon Dao and the others, to set up an ambush in the Xisha Desert to intercept and kill righteous people, and the six beast monsters under his command went to the Northeast Tiger Fear Mountain, and almost razed the Tiger Fear Mountain to the ground, except for the ordinary disciples, there was not a single cultivation disciple left, so that the head of the Tiger Fear Mountain, Zhu Wanli, was afraid of losing his soul and did not dare to leave the Tiger Fear Mountain for half a step.

It can be seen that the strength of the six beast monsters is not trivial.

As the chief engineer of the Tianmu Pagoda project, Qiu Shi also stood on the high platform, but he looked worried, he had not seen his children and grandchildren so far.

His gaze focused on a wooden building not far away.

This building was erected last night, dozens of wooden pillars supported a platform spliced with wooden planks, and some wooden pillars were planted on the platform, and he counted them, a total of nineteen.

And under the platform, in the middle of the wooden pillars, stuffed with firewood, and beside them were two wooden barrels, which he had seen before, and which were filled with tung oil.

What's the use of all this design?

He didn't ask the Blame King, and the Blame King didn't say.

He had a hunch that something bad was going to happen.

Densely packed under the high platform stood thousands of exhausted people, who looked at the strange king with their eyes, and waited for his order to descend the mountain and return home to their families.

Ren Zifei and the other four also stood among the people, while Yan Mo and Zhici walked on the periphery, patrolling around like the disciples of Strange Wood Mountain.

Hearing the strange king said loudly: "After three months, Tianmu Pagoda is completed today, you have worked hard, you are a mortal, you are fortunate to participate in the construction of such a huge project, it is really the work of my immortal family." ”

The people were angry and hateful in their hearts, and they were caught up the mountain to build this broken tower for no reason, not to mention that they couldn't eat or sleep, and they had to endure the leather whip of the overseer, and they had to always beware of being killed and injured by boulders.

But they dare not speak up, they just look forward to going home.

Ren Zifei in the crowd thought, the righteous path wants to cultivate immortals, and the demon path calls itself an immortal, what is an immortal?

The strange king said: "This Tianmu Tower is my most proud work, the creation of heaven and earth, to this afternoon, when the sun is at its peak, let you see the ancient wonders of its great might, and you will not be in vain." ”

He shouted, "Come, the Sacrifice Tower!" ”

Hearing a few shouts and scolding, a group of people walked out of a mountain col, and a few disciples of Strange Wood Mountain escorted more than a dozen people, including men and women, old and young, all of whom had their arms cut off, tied up with flowers, stuffed with cloth in their mouths, and made a vague mumping sound.

Qiu Shi was shocked when he saw it, those people were his eighteen children and grandchildren, and he hurriedly knelt down in front of the strange king, and said: "King, the old man has built the Tianmu Pagoda in accordance with the king's will, and I beg the king to let my children and grandchildren go, my Qiu family will always be virtuous!" ”

The strange king laughed, the ugly face became more and more hideous, and said: "Mr. Qiu, I respectfully invite you to go up the mountain, but you don't know how to excuse yourself several times, which angered the immortal family. ”

With a wave of his hand, two disciples had already stepped forward and tied Qiu Liu.

A total of nineteen members of the Qiu family were pushed onto the wooden platform and tied to nineteen wooden pillars, and Qiu Zhi was tied in the middle.

Qiu Zhi scolded: "You brutes ......"

The strange king shouted, "Ignite the fire!" ”

Several disciples stepped forward, lifted the wooden barrel, poured the tung oil inside on the firewood under the wooden platform, threw a torch up, and with a bang, the firewood ignited, and the fire soared into the sky, and the black smoke filled the air.

Ren Zifei and the other four people in the crowd saw that the nineteen people were pushed onto the high platform, and before they could react, the fire was already burning, and the crowd was in chaos, scattering and fleeing, but the disciples of Strange Wood Mountain raised their knives and slashed the first few people, and the people behind did not dare to move.

In the firelight, Qiu Zhiwu scolded freely: "You devils, sooner or later you will be retribution......

Suddenly, I saw a figure sweeping from the top of the crowd to the high platform, wearing the costume of a disciple of Strange Wood Mountain, holding a long green sword, shooting out dozens of sword rays, slashing towards the Strange King, it was Yan Mo.

The Monster King and the Six Beasts retreated, avoiding the sword and surrounding Yan Mo in the center.