"Lao Shi, why has Deacon Xu been gone for so long and hasn't come back, is there any danger?" Wu Neng used a thin iron rod to gently flick the firewood burning in the bonfire in front of him.

After the Chamber of Commerce tidied up the camp, everyone set up a bonfire in the camp and lit incense, although doing so would inevitably reveal the location of the Chamber of Commerce, but in the deep mountains and old forests in the middle of the night - not to mention the deep mountains and old forests in the forbidden area - the people who do not light the fire and do not light incense are obviously the kind of travelers that insects, snakes and beasts love the most.

Xiu Lin glanced at the hourglass clock placed not far away, and said, "Indeed, almost half an hour has passed since Deacon Xu left, why haven't you come back yet?" ”

One of the caravan stewards under Xu Fengshi stood up with a smile, there was no worry on his face, and the steward said: "You don't have to worry, Deacon Xu will be back in a while, and the things carried by the carriage parked under the high ground are very important, so it is normal to spend more time." ”

Xiu Lin asked curiously, "What exactly is in those carriages?" The carriage was sealed so tightly. ”

The steward said with some embarrassment: "The contents of the carriage are the secret treasures within our Chamber of Commerce, which are specially used to lure the spirit treasure in the forbidden area, so it is really inconvenient to disclose its situation to everyone, please forgive me." As he spoke, the steward clenched his fists and apologized.

Since the steward said so, it is not good for everyone to continue to ask, not asking the secrets of others is also the rules of the rivers and lakes that the righteous monks in the world generally abide by, and the truth is also very simple, everyone, every sect, and every family has their own secrets that they don't want others to know.

Of course, no one cares what means they use to inquire about the news in private, as long as they don't embarrass others on the stage, everyone is still a decent person.

Everyone gathered around the campfire and chatted again, and the topic soon turned to the strange things that everyone had heard when they traveled around the rivers and lakes.

A monk surnamed Qian, who was born in Wu State like Wu Neng, said to everyone mysteriously: "What you guys said is too ordinary, how many people who follow our path have never seen the vision of a murderous demon beast or a treasure?" I'll tell you about what I saw in my hometown the other day, and that's what shocks people. ”

"Braggadocio again, you should tell everyone about it, let's open our eyes." The people around him coaxed.

"Don't make any noise, isn't this going to be said?" Brother Qian pursed his lips, "You all know where my hometown is, it is Ellio Prefecture by the sea in the south of Wu Kingdom. ”

Hearing the name of this place, Shi Cheng and the three of them couldn't help but raise their heads in unison.

"In the southwest of Areho, there is a mountain range surrounded by the sea on three sides, and there used to be a thousand-year-old sect in the mountains called Yanmen. This sect is very interesting, it is composed of a group of mechanics, the first batch of disciples of this sect, is the first to come to the East and East Continent from the Cold Moon Continent to open up a part of the Cold Moon people, those mechanics in today's Wu Kingdom, then in the Alliu Prefecture to find a mountain by the sea, do not ask about the world, hide in the mountains, do not know what to study. ”

Wu Neng's body suddenly tensed.

"Yanmen? I've heard it. I heard that this group of sub-machine magicians is very skillful, and there are many strange methods that make people unguardable when facing the enemy, plus the remote location, so although the sect cultivation is the highest only half-step grandmaster of the Yanmen sect, there are few people who come to the door to find trouble with them on weekdays. These mechanics are also very low-key on weekdays, and they are rarely seen on the rivers and lakes, a few years ago, this sect didn't know who they provoked, it seemed to have been wiped out overnight, and then the rivers and lakes rarely heard of the existence of this group of mechanics. ”

"Yanmen? I've also heard that when those mountain bandits in the Mountain Plains Continent slaughtered the Gio people, Yanmen was the only one of the Cold Moon Country sects that stood up to protect the bandits, anyway, I don't have a good impression of these inhuman things, and they deserve to be destroyed. ”

When Shi Cheng heard this, he hurriedly looked at Wu Neng beside him, for fear that he would not be able to control his emotions, so he wanted to quietly appease his companion, but Shi Cheng was surprised to find that Wu Neng just bit his lower lip tightly, clenched the corners of his clothes tightly with his fists, and did not attack on the spot.

The monks were still talking about the Yanmen.

"If you want me to say, it's not surprising that Yanmen has been destroyed, this sect has not touched the mold of other sects on weekdays, and the relationship with the government is also very bad, and the enemies formed by these machine magicians are afraid that the sea is gone."

"But I heard that the murderer who destroyed Yanmen back then seems to have not been found, and the good deeds of the government and the people can't find out why, and they can organize such a big operation to destroy the door and hide their traces, I'm afraid it wasn't a big force that did it."

"Hey, hey, it's a bit of a conversation." Brother Qian saw that others were pulling the topic farther and farther away, and hurriedly tried to pull the conversation back, "Let's get down to business first, after the Yanmen was destroyed that year, only the ruins of the sect were left in that mountain range, and when the investigation of the government was over, many people in the rivers and lakes, and even many evil cultivators, went to that mountain range, wanting to try their luck and see if there were any sect treasures left in the ruins, but the entire Yanmen was burned to the ground, and these people could only return in the end." ”

Speaking of this, Brother Qian's tone suddenly raised.

"But just about three months ago, a hunter who went into the mountains to hunt suddenly discovered at night that a strange light like a ghost fire suddenly came out of the ruins of the sect, which should have been lifeless, and at the time when the ghost fire appeared, all the hunters or rangers who went to explore the ruins out of curiosity disappeared mysteriously, and there was no movement at all when they disappeared."

Speaking of this, Brother Qian added mysteriously, "Before the appearance of the ghost fire, nothing like this happened in the ruins of Yanmen. ”

"Isn't there a demon beast doing it?" Another monk asked.

"There are many people who enter the ruins, there is no shortage of good hands who have formed a group to enter, it is really a monster, and there will be no movement at all? Later, there were even spies from the government and disciples of local monastic families to investigate, but none of them could come back. Brother Qian said disdainfully.

"And then." The crowd was interested.

"This incident once caused a lot of trouble in my hometown, and it was even reported in the local newspaper. Later, however, the fire inexplicably disappeared, and after about a month, no Orion had seen it in the ruins. Strange to say, after the ghost fire disappeared, the people who entered the forbidden area to explore the secret never had an accident again. ”