Lao Wu's instructions did play a role in reminding Shao Xi, Shao Xi originally regarded this trip as extremely important, but now seeing that Lao Wu is so nervous, he also knows that the ghost emperor mansion he is facing is probably still simple at the beginning.

Since Lao Wu has reminded him, he has to be a little more careful, and Lao Wu will never scare himself mischievously about this kind of thing.

Shao Xi rode alone to the door of the Xinjing Teahouse, handed over the horses to the men and came to the front hall of the teahouse after handing over the horses to the men as he had done last time.

When the shopkeeper saw Shao Xi arrive, he hurriedly greeted him, and this time he didn't need to be tempted by words like last time, and directly brought Shao Xi to the square hall last time.

As soon as the two of them entered the door, they saw a person sitting at the table in the square hall, who looked to be in his early fifties, and saw that the shopkeeper brought Shao Xi in, and this person also quickly got up.

After the introduction of the shopkeeper, Shao Xi realized that although this person was a person from the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, he was only a guide, if he wanted to see the real person from the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, he would not be able to see it in this teahouse, so he would take Shao Xi to this person's guide.

Shao Xi is mentally prepared for this, and when he thinks about it, he also knows that how can the people of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion meet him in this Xinjing Teahouse?

If you want to talk about the sale of murder, you must go to the land of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, and this Kyoto Daliang City is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, how can it be so blatant?

So after the two sides met and said a few polite words, this person opened his mouth and said to Shao Xi: "This son, since you have a brand in your hand, can you let me take a look at it?" ”

Shao Xi felt that this request was not too much, since he wanted to talk to someone about business, it was also necessary to check his identity.

Shao Xi handed the Ghost Emperor's Mansion life-seeking card to the person who came, and the person just looked at it briefly in his hand and nodded to confirm the authenticity of the brand, and gave the brand back to Shao Xi and glanced at the shopkeeper.

The shopkeeper of the teahouse understood, and when he came to a wooden frame, he didn't know where he touched the mechanism, only to see the wooden frame move to the side to reveal a passage, and then raised his hand to make a gesture of please.

The person who led the way glanced at Shao Xi and turned around and walked into the passage first, Shao Xi understood that leaving the Xinjing Teahouse from this secret passage would not attract the attention of the people outside, so he followed without hesitation.

The passage is not long, and the estimation in Shao Xi's mind is probably that it leads to the backyard of Xinjing Teahouse.

When a few people left the passage from a staircase and came to the ground, as Shao Xi thought, this was a warehouse in the backyard of the teahouse, and they came to the alley in the backyard through the small door, only to see a carriage parked outside the door.

After the shopkeeper of the teahouse invited the two to get into the carriage, he closed the door of the carriage and returned to the teahouse.

At this time, there were only Shao Xi and the person who led the way in the carriage of the Ghost Emperor's Mansion, and this person politely said to Shao Xi, "This son, according to our rules, we must blindfold the son before arriving at the place, and I hope that the son will not be surprised." ”

Shao Xi smiled and replied: "The guest is as he pleases, since there is this rule, you should abide by it." ”

Seeing that Shao Xi was not disgusted, this person took out a black cloth belt and put it on Shao Xi's eyes, and the two stopped talking, but sat quietly in the carriage.

Although his eyes were blindfolded, Shao Xi's ears could still clearly hear the movement outside the carriage, and he could hear that after the carriage left the alley, it passed through a relatively prosperous section, and heard the sound of the soldiers guarding the city gate checking the road guide.

Shao Xi knew that they were going out of the city, and judging from the time from the Xinjing Teahouse to the city gate, they should have gone directly out of the east gate, otherwise it would be impossible to reach the city gate so quickly.

After going out of the city gate, I listened to it, and the voices outside became more and more scarce, proving that it was getting farther and farther away from Daliang City, and it seemed that the Ghost Emperor's Mansion was not in Daliang City, but on the outskirts of the city.

The carriage walked a little bumpy for a long time, Shao Xi estimated in his heart that it would take at least nearly an hour, and the journey was not very fast, and the rough estimate was at least ten miles.

In the end, it finally stopped slowly, and the person who led the way got out of the carriage first, and then carefully helped Shao Xi down from the car, and after pulling Shao Xi's arm for a short while, he reminded Shao Xi that there was a threshold.

Shao Xi thought to himself, where did he come to the outskirts of the city?

After passing the first door, he didn't go far and reminded Shao Xi to pay attention to his feet, Shao Xi knew that he was going to enter the house.

As soon as he crossed the threshold, Shao Xi realized that this was not the private house he had guessed before, because he didn't hear anyone else's voice except for the voice of the person leading the way.

In addition, there is a clear smell of incense here, and if you guess correctly, this should be a temple.

But Shao Xi wondered why he couldn't hear the sound of Muyu chanting in this temple?

Judging from the height of the threshold just crossed, the scale of this temple should not be too small, and from the degree of quietness, it can be concluded that this should be a remote and deserted temple.

But such a strong incense gas proves that there have always been people on incense, it seems that the Buddha and Bodhisattva here are worshipped, and at this time he is standing in the main hall of this temple.

The person who led the way asked Shao Xi to wait for a while, Shao Xi could hear that this person was walking in the direction of the confession, and after a while, he heard the sound of the stone slab rubbing, and guessed that there must be a secret door here, and the sound of the stone slab rubbing was made when the secret door was opened.

Then, led by the guide, the two entered a narrow door, followed by a long descending staircase.

I don't know how long I walked down, but I finally changed to parallel forward, and after walking for a long time, I opened a stone door again, and after passing this door, I walked forward again for a while.

At this time, Shao Xi had already felt a strong sense of coldness, if he guessed correctly, the two of them should be in a deep place underground at this time.

After a lot of tossing, he finally stopped, and the man untied the black cloth tape that Shao Xi was covering his eyes.

Under normal circumstances, after being blindfolded for a long time, when the cloth belt is just removed, the surrounding light will pierce the eyes and unable to open them, but Shao Xi did not feel the slightest discomfort, just because the surrounding environment was also dark at this time.

Beside him and in the distance, there were a number of iron basins with flames burning on wooden shelves, which seemed to be used for lighting.

Under the flickering firelight, Shao Xi saw that there was a stone road in front of him, and then looked at the surroundings, although it was dark but extremely open.

If it weren't for the long down stairs before, coupled with the cold aura felt by his body, Shao Xi might have thought that he was standing on the wilderness where the moon was dark and the wind was high, and there were no stars and no moon.

It's just that this wilderness looks devoid of grass and trees, and it looks extremely desolate.

At this time, Shao Xi's heart knew very well that he was now in a deep place underground, but he could faintly hear the sound of running water.

This reminded Shao Xi of the underground river where he accidentally entered the Wulong Valley when he was in Wulong Mountain, jumped into the Wulong Pond and rushed into the underground cave.

Judging in this way, the environment he was in at this time should be similar to that in Wulong Mountain before, but when he looked up, this cave was a little ridiculously big, far from being comparable to the cave under Wulong Pond.

Shao Xi knew in his heart that at this time, he should be in a huge underground cave naturally formed under a certain mountain range.

Without waiting for Shao Xi to think about it any more, the person who led the way opened his mouth and said to Shao Xi: "Childe, I can only send you here, the road behind you has to go by yourself, you can follow the firelight along this stone road all the way, someone in front will continue to guide you the way, remember not to deviate from this road, otherwise something will have nothing to do with others." ”

After speaking, this person didn't wait for Shao Xi to reply, turned around and walked back in the direction he came.

It seems that the highest authority of this guide in the Ghost Emperor's Mansion is to bring people here, and the person who leads the way for himself should be a person with higher authority.

Shao Xi watched him disappear into the darkness, turned his head and glanced at the direction pointed out by the two rows of braziers, and walked forward without hesitation.

Faintly he could see that there was a denser firelight in the distance ahead, and Shao Xi walked along the stone road illuminated by the firelight towards the scattered firelight in the distance.

This distance is not close, Shao Xi is not in a hurry, but walks all the way unhurriedly, this road has been like this for a while, and finally came to the place where there is more fire.

Walking here, Shao Xi realized that there was indeed a wide underground dark river in front of him, and the sound of flowing water that he had heard before came from this dark river.

Along the riverbank at intervals there were also braziers with wooden frames, Shao Xi looked around again, and couldn't help but sigh Where is this simple underground cave?

At this time, the surroundings seemed even more empty, as if the whole mountain was empty, and these braziers for lighting were like starlight in the vast night sky, which seemed insignificant.

The brazier placed along the river can only illuminate a small part of the underground dark river, and it is the other side of the river that shines the most light, and it seems that the brazier over there is many times more than this side of the river.

Shao Xi took a closer look by the firelight, and in addition to all kinds of strange rocks with strange shapes, there were also some strangely shaped flowers and plants growing on the ground on the riverbank.

Shao Xi couldn't help but be a little strange, this place where there is no sunlight all year round not only grows weeds, but also wildflowers?

This Ghost Emperor's Mansion is really worthy of its name, and the place where it is located is really underground! A group of living people live in such a place all year round, no wonder they make themselves not like people and ghosts!

Just when Shao Xi was a little surprised by what he saw, he suddenly heard the sound of oars hitting the water in the distance, as if someone was rowing towards his place, if he guessed correctly, this should be the next person to lead the way.

It's just that the light is really dim at this time, and Shao Xi can only judge by hearing that the boat is coming from upstream, and listening to the sound of its breaking water should be extremely fast.

Although it was going down the river, it sounded a little unusual, after all, the current of this underground river was not turbulent, and the fact that the water broke through the water showed that the rower's arm strength was amazing, and he could row a small boat so fast.

Just as Shao Xi was guessing who the comer was, he saw a black shadow on the river quickly coming towards his foothold.

At this time, Shao Xi saw clearly that it was an old man wearing a robe, a hat, and a somewhat stiff figure, who was rowing a small boat and sailing towards him quickly.

The reason why the other party is sure that he is an old man is because of his body shape and the long snow-white beard on his chest.

I saw that the old man rowed the boat in front of him and stopped, neither anchored nor cast the cable, and the wooden boat stopped in the middle of the river, and did not continue to flow down with the current.

It can be seen that this makes the boatman use his vitality to offset the power of the current and stabilize the boat in the middle of the river, and it seems that the extremely fast speed of the boat is also based on the vitality.

I only heard the old man on the boat say in a low and hoarse voice, "Get on board!" ”