Yue Guanchao listened to the rumors of the cave mountain, and the doubts in his heart also increased, and he looked at Old Man Tang and frowned: "Uncle Tang, such a big cave mountain, and so many birds and beasts are entrenched, where is the entrance to the cave mountain?" ”

What he is most concerned about is how they find the entrance to the cave mountain, even if the real Shinto Dao is worshipping outside the cave mountain, they must first find the main master, and they can't see a mountain to worship once.

Old Man Tang heard him mention this, and shook his head: "Baby, if you want to ask like this, the old man can only tell you that the entrance to the cave mountain has never been determined!" ”

"I followed the village to worship the ancestors when I was a child, every time I can enter the cave mountain from a different cave, sometimes in the mountains, sometimes on the top of the mountain, and sometimes next to the spring water on the mountainside, there is no law to follow, and there is no special mark building, just ordinary mountain caves, as long as we come out of the cave after sacrificing our ancestors, and when we go back, the road is completely blocked, and we can only wait for the next year to worship the ancestors again, so as to open a new entrance."

Tang Baoguan's words made everyone curious, and they felt more and more that the cave mountain was a living thing, and even that it had its own consciousness, so that it could change different entrances.

Song Siyuan's eyes flashed with a different color, and he asked seriously: "Because of this, the real purpose of you carrying these six animals is not to sacrifice to the Soul Palace, but to open the entrance of the cave mountain and let you in to hold a sacrificial ceremony?" ”

Her words obviously guessed the meaning of the sacrifice, and even Tang Baoguan had to praise her a few words, trembling and touching the map and saying: "Woman, your brain melon seeds are really smart, it is indeed such a statement, these cave mountains will not be opened at all without flesh and blood sacrifices, and Muramasa has also tried not to send sacrifices into the cave mountain, and they also forcibly excavated the cave last time, and can only dig out the sedimentary sediment and gravel and things like vines and dead grass." ”

"Later, I also summoned the beasts in other caves, these caves are interconnected with each other, like an anthill hornet's nest, without the guidance of the cave mountain to bypass the labyrinth and enter the cave mountain, it is very difficult, although the soul palace is in the depths of the cave mountain, we have not seen the real soul palace so far, often go down to the depths of the cave mountain to hold a sacrificial ceremony and go back, and do not dare to stay in it for too long."

This remark surprised everyone, Song Siyuan only thought that bringing sacrifices was only needed for feudal etiquette, so it seems that the actual role of the six animals is greater than the role of etiquette.

"God, is it true that the cave mountain is a mountain that eats living creatures, as you said, uncle?"

When Tang Dayang was born, his grandfather had already taken his ancestors from the mountains to Xijing, and his family was very taboo to mention Tangling Village and Soul Palace.

He, like Yue Guanchao and them, heard for the first time that there was a mountain that ate living creatures, and the surprise on his face was no less than theirs, and he felt his scalp tingle before he went to the cave mountain.

"Uncle, have you ever eaten people in this mountain?"

Tang Dayang asked cautiously, if it's better to just eat animals, even if you eat living people, then it's called horror.

Tang Baoguan's face became mysterious, and his tone was full of fear for the rest of his life after the catastrophe: "The villagers are all folded inside, you guess whether they eat people or not, you have to say that you haven't seen blood, but the villagers and tomb robbers just disappeared, disappeared without a trace in the cave mountain, not even a single piece of clothing and fur was left, I can only guess that they were eaten by the soul mist in the cave mountain." ”

After speaking, the old man kept slapping the wooden table, and his tone was quite anxious: "Baby girl, it is for this reason that I don't want to ask you to go to the Soul Palace, you think about the sacrifice alone will cause so much trouble, once you find the Soul Palace, the consequences will be unimaginable, but I see that you are confident, I can only wish you success, but don't go down the old path." ”

Tang Baoguan knew that Yue Guanchao had made up his mind, and he was no longer verbose, pointing to the map of the Qinling Mountains and groping and said: "Taiyiyu is very close to the meridian road, we have to enter the south foot along the meridian road in the east of the Qinling Mountains, and then take the Shicheng Station, Yangquan Station, and Hanzhong Station at the south foot to the south end of the Baochuan Road, and then enter the Wusheng Station, you can stand on the Yungu plank road, and then sacrifice the six animals to find the cave mountain." ”

Yue Guanchao looked at the map, and wanted to enter the Baochuan Road from the Meridian Road, either through the Tongtho official road outside the Qinling Mountains, or only through the Hanzhong Basin of the Qinling Mountains, there was no other way!

He was very curious why he didn't choose the official road outside the Qinling Mountains, after all, it was much easier to take the official road in the plains than in the deep mountains and old forests, so he simply asked the question in his heart: "Uncle Tang, isn't it easier for us to take the official road to enter the Baochuan Road, why do we have to go to the Hanzhong Basin?" Isn't that a blind detour? ”

Old man Tang knew that Yue Guanchao thought a lot, and hurriedly calmed everyone's hearts: "Baby, we have a lot of people and carriages, and we must not be interrogated by the county town when we walk outside the official road, ask a few more times, and basically ask what we do, it is not good for your plan, and it is not decent to dig a tomb as a soil master, in case these counties want to inspect things and see the things you have prepared to dig the kiln, it will be very bad." ”

"The road I chose are in the deep mountains and old forests, it was originally a transit plank road for north-south freight, and now there are trains, these plank roads are mostly abandoned, except for some unsightly partial door traders are willing to go, usually there are basically no people, we just open and go okay."

"Think about it, isn't that the reason?"