Zhao Chengyun is willing to call the scenery here the best in the world.

Once, he saw that Qiyun Mountain was majestic, but he was draped in the sun, and there was a strange beauty of a strong man wearing red makeup.

And here he saw a line, a very long line between black and white, and white was, of course, not really white, but a patch of gray, as if it had been infected by black.

What Zhao Yingyun saw was a silence, as if there were lines drawn by an invisible hand.

To the south it was black, and the further south it went, and behind the dotted line formed by the little fire, it was gray and shrouded in mist.

Zhao Yingyun entered this gray light fog and walked down the ridge, there was no vegetation on the ridge, it was all black stones, and he fell like a robe falling in the wind.

At the foot of this hill, there happened to be a hut, and the light of the fire came out of the hut.

Floating outside the hut, he looked through the window, and he saw that the room was actually very similar to the layout of his own fire temple.

There is a square pond in the middle of the fire hall, and in the square pond is a burning flame.

It's just that this house is much smaller, and the fire pit inside is also much smaller, on the edge of the fire pit, there are only some basic ceramic utensils, you can see the traces of human activity, and the soil on the edge of the fire pit seems to be mixed with some blood stains, as if someone slaughtered livestock here, and then roasted and eaten here.

He imagined that a man who had been away from the people for a long time would come back from hunting, and after directly disemboweling and skinning the prey, he would take it to the fire pit here and roast it and eat it.

Alone, facing the darkness, guarding the fire pit and blocking the darkness.

He walked around the hut and came to the front.

The hut was made of dirt and had a high wall in the middle of the courtyard, so that the wind could not blow directly into the house, and it was impossible for others to see the house directly.

Just as he was thinking about whether to go in, he heard footsteps in his ears, and when he turned around, he saw a man walking out of the dark mist.

As I got closer, I saw that it was an old man in a fur jacket, but he was tall, carrying a spear on his shoulder, and the barrel of the gun carried a beast with yellow fur.

The old man looked at Zhao Yingyun and looked at it, there was not much surprise in his eyes, Zhao Yingyun felt that he was judging whether he was a human or not.

"Uncle, are you going to hunt in the dark?" Zhao Yingyun asked.

"Well, you can see that." The old man replied.

"I've heard that this dark is dangerous, and it's really amazing that you can walk in and out of the darkness and walk on the ground." Zhao Yingyun said praisefully.

"I've been here for a long time, I've seen a lot, and I'll always know something." The old man said, "You just came, let's go, the old man invites you to eat roasted yellow muntjac meat." ”

The old man probably hasn't seen outsiders for a long time, or maybe the atmosphere here is like this, and he is more enthusiastic about outsiders, of course, it may be that the old man himself is a bold character.

Zhao Yingyun followed him into the courtyard made of mud in the house, and saw him hang up the yellow muntjac, and then took out a skinning knife and began to peel the skin, peel off the whole skin and put it aside, and then began to break open the stomach, took out the internal organs and those things, and packed them in different categories.

Zhao Yingyun laid his hand next to him and handed him a clay pot and a jar, which was used to hold dung.

He didn't know what any of that was for, but he didn't ask.

After that, the old man took his iron spear and skewered the muntjac meat, and came into the house, and lay on the fire pit on the ground.

He sat on the ground, so Zhao Chengyun also squatted on the ground, the old man was free, and looked at Zhao Yingyun again, seeing that Zhao Yingyun was just squatting, but not sitting on the ground, he said: "Young man, where are you from?" ”

"Where does the old man come from?" Zhao Yingyun asked rhetorically.

"It doesn't matter if you don't say it, the old man grew up in this area, as long as he comes here for vigil, his past identity doesn't matter." The old man said.

"It's not that I'm hiding anything, it's just that I have some scruples, the younger generation is from Tiandu Mountain." Zhao Yingyun said.

"Tiandu Mountain, the people of Tiandu Mountain are all in that pass over there." The old man said, pointing a finger.

Zhao Yingyun didn't see any other emotions on his face.

"Are there many disciples from Tiandu Mountain who come here?" Zhao Yingyun asked.

"In the face of this whole darkness, there are not many people, there is a Purple Mansion Daoist of Tiandu Mountain in that pass, who has been there for many years, so some Tiandu Mountain disciples come here to practice, or to find treasure materials and refine treasures, and if they want to be safe, they will gather over there."

Zhao Yingyun nodded in understanding.

The old man took out salt and spices from the treasure bag and sprinkled them on the muntjac meat.

"I haven't consulted my father-in-law's name yet." Zhao Yingyun said with some embarrassment.

"Everyone calls me the old gunman, and you can call me the old gunman too." The old man didn't care about reporting his name, like the name of a cat or dog.

"Also, don't call me my father-in-law, it sounds awkward, just call the old man, and besides, you have a way of cultivation and a good way to stay in your face, you may not be younger than me."

Zhao Yingyun thought about it, it was also possible, because he could sense that the old spear head in front of him was the cultivation of the foundation.

But he decided anyway to ask the other party's age.

"I wonder how old you are?" Zhao Yingyun asked.

"This day is facing the polar night, there is no four seasons, and the yin and yang are reversed, where do you know how many years have passed, let alone how old you are." The words of the old spearhead made Zhao Yingyun want to scratch his head.

"Then I'll call you brother." Zhao Yingyun felt that he might be bigger than himself, even if it was much bigger, it would not be wrong to call him brother.

"Okay, it's all up to you." The old spearhead grinned, revealing a yellow tooth that was missing a front tooth.

"Brother said he grew up in this area? That is naturally very familiar with this polar night sky, the younger generation has just arrived, and wants to live here for a while, I don't know what to pay attention to? ”

"From your name, you know that you are indeed the first time to come, and everyone here is not called Polar Night, but Lao Hei. You have to remember that the most dangerous time for Lao Hei is when you are most afraid of yourself, if you are always cranky, then you will be targeted by Lao Hei. ”

"Look at the fire?" The old spearman pointed to the fire in the fire pit.

Of course, Zhao Yingyun had noticed a long time ago that this fire was not an ordinary fire, but a sacrificial fire.

"Every such fire pit is a sacrificial pit, we are guarding the old black, but also guarding the fire pit, the fire pit is not extinguished, we can guard ourselves, the key is not to be afraid, if you are afraid, you will find the old black surging, terrifying and weird."

Zhao Chengyun looked at the flames in the fire pit and saw that the 'firewood' in the fire pit was all bones.

"My fire pit is called the Beast Fire Pit, and the first fire is lit with a tiger bone that turns into a demon." The old spearman said.

"The first thing you do here is to light a fire pit, if you don't know how to light a fire pit, I can teach you to light a beast fire pit." The old spearman said.

Zhao Yingyun was very curious, he didn't know how to light a fire pit, he had a red flame magic lamp himself, but he wanted to know how this beast fire pit was lit.

So I asked him for advice, and the other party didn't hide it, and told him how to light a fire pit while roasting meat.

"This fire pit is not achieved in one step, but in several steps." The old spearman said: "This first step, site selection. ”

"We can't compare to you Tiandu Mountain, we can be used as a tuyere to set up camp and block the limelight of Lao Hei, we must choose a shelter from the wind."

"Then it's time to burn the ground, and the place where the fire house is going to be built will be burned first, and the yin energy on the ground will be burned out. Then the place where it was burned out was encircled, and then incense was sacrificed to the gods of the four directions to form a yang house pattern. ”

Zhao Yingyun listened in his heart, but he had some confusion about the Quartet Divine Venerable, but he did not interrupt the other party.

"The next thing is to dig a pit, after digging a pit here, it is like digging a well, and soon there will be yin qi gushing out, at this time, you have to use your own sacrificial tiger bones to put it inside."

"The tiger bone belongs to the yang, the yin in the fire pit is rich, so it forms a situation of holding the yang in the yin, we have to carry out a hundred beast sacrifices when the tiger bone yang is not extinguished by the yin, so that the yin and yang are entangled, from then on, the yin in the well is like the lamp oil in the lamp, and then, please bring a heavenly fire to fall into it, ignite the fire pit, and so, it will be."

He is talking about the outline-style steps, as for how to sacrifice the beasts and how to invite the heavenly fire, these have not been elaborated.

"If you really read thousands of books, it is better to travel thousands of miles, if you don't come here, how do you know that there is such a fire pit in this world." Zhao Yingyun sighed.

"It's just some side skills, not as good as Tiandu Mountain's Heavenly Dao Technique." The old spearman said.

As he spoke, the oil in the muntjac meat on the iron spear dripped into the fire pit below, and the flames soared, Zhao Chengyun actually felt that the flames were like invisible beasts, and the tongues of fire poured out and ate the oil dripping from the meat.

It's like eating the aroma that emanates from it.

Zhao Yingyun closed his eyes and perceived with his thoughts, only to feel that a beast roar appeared in the originally quiet and void flames.

The beast's roar was faint at first, but after listening to a few more sounds, he could hear that it was a hundred beasts' roar, and there was a sense of shock, and he felt that his thoughts were sluggish when he listened, and an inexplicable fear was born.

However, when he opened his eyes, the Suppression Law had already suppressed those thoughts.

At this time, the old spearhead also looked at him, and Zhao Yingyun couldn't help but say: "This beast pit really has the meaning of a hundred beasts singing together, the flame is like a beast's roar, and it can drive away the evil monsters." ”

The old spearman smiled, opened the lid of a black altar next to him, took down the wine grape hanging on the wall, and directly lifted it, and drank it to his mouth.

After drinking, he said, "Do you want to take a sip?" ”

Zhao Yingyun hurriedly shook his head and said, "I don't like to drink, thank you." ”

"Wine is a good thing, it's a pity not to drink it." After the old gunman finished speaking, he looked at the dark night outside and said, "The south wind blew all night today, and the old black will be restless tonight." ”