Just halfway up the mountain, at a glance, there are strange stones of varying heights, turning into a dense forest of stones, and the craggy stone pillars are like sharp swords straight into the sky, like the magic of heaven and earth.

The autumn wind passed through this strange stone forest, and it made a strange whistling sound.

"Woo ......"

Hearing Su Ziqiu behind him let out a weak whining, Lin Yue sneered, didn't say anything, and walked straight to this stone forest with her on his back.

"To the left when you are high, and to the right when you are low."

Lin Yue silently recited this trick in his heart, took another look at this patchwork and maze of stone forests, and immediately chose one of the empty paths to walk to.

Although he didn't know how this stone forest came from, it should have been artificially modified.

Because, this stone forest is a maze array.

For mortals who can't fly or jump high, it's easy to get lost in this stone forest.

Fortunately, the five-level secret that Lin Yue had obtained at the beginning of the appearance of all beings also contained the know-how to enter the formation, otherwise it would have been difficult for him to pass through this stone forest.

The trick is simple.

Every high to the left, every low to the right.

Lin Yue observed the height of the strange stone in front of him, and walked briskly on this rugged hillside with Su Ziqiu on his back.

Whenever you come across a very high stone pillar, you immediately change lanes to the left.

Whenever you come across a short stone pillar, you will change lanes to the right.

After bypassing more than a dozen stone pillars in such a row, Lin Yue found that the front suddenly opened up, and there were no strange rocks and rocks, but a huge mountain wall.

"It's out." Lin Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

It was the third time he had come, and he was naturally extremely familiar, and he did not hesitate in the slightest step, and chose a shorter route based on experience.

If it's someone else, even if you know the trick, you have to take a better detour to say less.

Of course.

If you can fly, or jump extremely high, there is no point in the blinding of this stone forest.

For example, the birds that land on top of strange rocks.

However, this stone forest is only the outermost small means.

Even if a cultivator flew directly over the stone forest and found this mountain wall, he could not find the existence of the cave.

Unless—

Lin Yue looked up at the top of the mountain wall, and soon found an oval-shaped boulder protruding from the cliff above.

He immediately carried Su Ziqiu on his back, raised his feet and walked towards the mountain wall directly below the boulder.

After a while, when he walked to a position only four or five zhang away from the mountain wall, Lin Yue stopped, raised his head to confirm the position of the boulder above, and moved half a step to confirm that it was directly below, and then looked at the mountain wall in front again.

Su Ziqiu was tied to his back, looking at the mountain wall in some confusion, not understanding what this person was going to do, but she couldn't ask with Wu Ma San stuffed in her mouth.

An autumn breeze blows.

The next moment-

She suddenly felt Lin Yue's hands grasp the crook of her legs, and after making sure that she wouldn't fall, she found that he was running wildly, sprinting towards the hard mountain wall in front of him!

Su Ziqiu couldn't help but be stunned.

But she couldn't do anything but watch the gray-white mountain wall get closer and closer to her.

This mountain wall was only four or five zhang away from the two of them, Lin Yue carried her on her back, and the speed had just rushed up, and it was already close to the hard mountain wall!

Seeing that he was about to hit the mountain wall, Su Ziqiu subconsciously closed his eyes.

Although she also knew in her heart that it was impossible for this cunning and treacherous untouchable to hit the wall to find death inexplicably, she still subconsciously hoped that this untouchable would crash to death on this mountain wall.

And yet—

In an instant, as if passing through an invisible layer of cold air, a chill spread from all over the body, and then, the surroundings became extremely quiet in an instant.

The wind howls through the stone forest, and the birds in the mountains chirp...... All movement disappeared at this moment, and the dryness of the barren mountains and wilderness disappeared, instead becoming somewhat cool and wet.

Su Ziqiu couldn't help but open his eyes.

Only then did I realize that I was already in a slightly dim cave at this time, with a deep darkness in the cave in front of me, and a bright cave behind me.

Phantom Array?

She suddenly understood why she couldn't see this cave outside, it turned out to be hidden by a layer of phantom array enchantment?

It seems that Lin Yue's strange behavior of sprinting and running with her just now is the trick to enter the phantom array?

At this moment, Su Ziqiu found that Lin Yue suddenly let go of her legs.

Immediately, the slipknot of the rope that bound her was untied.

She was weak and couldn't hold her hands, if it weren't for the rope binding her body, even if Lin Yue wanted to carry her to climb the mountain.

At this time, after Lin Yue let go of the rope and his hands, Su Ziqiu suddenly let out an exclamation, and the whole person fell to the ground.

The hard rocky ground was a little uneven, and she was about to fall and her back ached.

Lin Yue slowly turned around and looked at Su Ziqiu.

It was close to the entrance of the cave, and the light of the outside sky fell on his face, clearly illuminating the mockery at the corner of his lips.

That's unbridled.

Su Ziqiu panicked in her heart, and subconsciously shrank back, but her body was already weak and weak, and the fall just now made it difficult for her to even move.

"Your Highness."

Lin Yue squatted down in front of her, and after helping her to lean against the stone wall, he reached out and pinched her cheek, and gently took out the black hemp in her mouth.

Only then did he say softly: "I have really wronged you in the past few months, hehe...... How does it feel to be a woman? Even the geranium is exactly the same as the woman, how does it feel? ”

"You ......" Su Ziqiu's tongue stiffened, and he said with difficulty: "What the hell is ...... How do you do it......"

"Hehe......"

Lin Yue sneered, took out a knife from the package around his waist, and gently cut the tip of his index finger.

Immediately, he slowly wiped a drop of blood that had just come out of the wound on her forehead.

Su Ziqiu was slightly stunned, only feeling a trace of warmth coming from his forehead.

But in just an instant, that trace of warmth turned into a strong burning sensation, followed by a boiling stream of heat, which continued to pour out all parts of the body!

In the midst of this blazing heat, she felt as if all the flesh and bones in her body were about to melt, and her consciousness began to become muddy.

Lin Yue squinted his eyes and looked at Su Ziqiu.

At this moment, in his eyes, the blood stain on Su Ziqiu's forehead was slowly disappearing, or rather, it was being absorbed.

And her body is also undergoing strange changes at a magnitude visible to the naked eye.

After the bloodstain disappeared completely, Lin Yue found that Su Ziqiu's face seemed to have molted, and a layer of skin began to slowly detach from her face.

In addition, there is a small patch of reddish white keratin skin at the forehead.

Lin Yue looked at her expressionlessly, reached out and grabbed the small piece of dough at the corner of his forehead, and slowly tore it open.

Tearing from the corners of the forehead, as if a human skin mask had been removed, it gradually peeled over the eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, and even the chin.

After a few breaths, a complete translucent face was torn off her face.

And she, or rather, he—

has changed from an emaciated sick beauty to a pale, almost skinny young man!

Not only the face, but also the body has completely changed, from the previous petite body of more than six feet, to the body of a man of more than seven feet, including the bulge on the original woman's chest, which has also been completely flattened.

The only thing that remains unchanged is the same skinny.

"Yo...... Long time no see. ”

Lin Yue casually put the face into his arms and squatted in front of the young man, with a cold smile on his lips, "Young Master Xia Lie, Your Highness Xia Honglie, I haven't seen your dignity for a long time, I'm really ......"

"Smack!!"

Xia Honglie only felt that his eyes were dark, he suddenly lost sensation on his cheeks, Venus appeared in front of him, his ears were buzzing, and his upper body fell to the ground involuntarily.

After a while, a bright red slap mark slowly appeared on his originally pale cheeks, and a trace of red blood flowed from the corner of his lips.

“…… It's really itchy hands. ”

Lin Yue shook his wrist with a smile, and said in a comfortable mood: "Before, Your Highness, you became a clumsy appearance, so I really can't bear to do it, and I don't dare to let you change back in Qingdu, but now I am finally a little angry." ”

Xia Honglie spit out a mouthful of blood, lay on the ground and stared at him deadly, and said a little vaguely: "I know that you hate me to the bone, and you can kill or chop me up." ”

"Really?"

Lin Yue sneered, "Your Highness is now a mermaid, obviously wants to live, and can still say such things, but he also has a bit of backbone." ”

He grabbed Xia Honglie's collar casually, pulled him up from the ground, and leaned back against the stone wall before he said, "Although it doesn't make much sense, I still want to ask you a question, and I hope you can answer me truthfully." ”

Xia Honglie licked the blood on the corner of his lower lip, and then sneered: "I know what question you want to ask...... Want to know why I killed Su Ziqiu? ”

"I advise you not to provoke me."

Lin Yue looked at him with a cold smile, "Otherwise, I'll rack my brains to come up with a lot of dehumanizing ways to play, so you can try it well." ”

Xia Honglie was silent for a moment, and said in a low voice: "If you want to know anything, just ask." ”

"Let's talk about it." Lin Yue narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "Why?" Why was Su Ziqiu killed that day? ”

He never asked.

Because he didn't want to hear those cruel answers when the other party was still Su Ziqiu's appearance.

The world has been cruel enough to her.

Fatherless and motherless, frail since childhood, no friends, and destined to live a short life, that day she rarely mustered up the courage to come to the Taoist Academy to deliver him food, she watched him eat, it seemed that she was happier than she ate the delicacies of the mountains and seas.

She just wanted to try a little happiness in the simplest of things.

But what had she done wrong to be deprived of even the simplest happiness?

Maybe it's really the hemp rope that is broken in detail, and the bad luck is looking for the miserable?

He just wanted to listen to the most authentic answer from the other party when Xia Honglie was Xia Honglie.

"Why?"

Xia Honglie looked at him weakly and said, "Do you really need an answer to this kind of question for someone as smart as you?" ”

Lin Yue was silent for a long time, and said lightly: "I don't need those essential and philosophical answers, I just want to understand the thoughts of people like you and avoid them in the future." ”

Xia Honglie smiled, his smile was full of mockery and self-mockery, as if he was answering and as if he was repeating someone else's answer:

"She didn't do anything wrong, but I couldn't get used to it, so I killed her...... It's as simple as that, if I kill her, what does it have to do with how hard she lives? ”

Lin Yue narrowed his eyes and said slowly, "Just because you can't get used to it?" ”

"Yes, I can't get used to it, that's all."

Xia Honglie laughed a little crazy, "There is nothing to be ashamed of saying it in front of you, I have been bullied by others, only she comforts me and accompanies me again and again, she makes me feel that it is still meaningful to live, but she still betrayed me easily, watching me be played like a dog, hahaha...... It must be fun to do that......"

His self-deprecation was like the barking of a mad dog.

Lin Yue looked at him expressionlessly, and said indifferently: "I'm not interested in your past, I'm looking for you to take revenge, what does it have to do with how hard you lived in the past?" ”

"Well said, that's it, haha......"

Xia Honglie laughed so hard that he couldn't help coughing violently.

After coughing for a while, he continued: "That day, I saw you and Su Ziqiu sitting at the gate of the Taoist courtyard with a loving look, looking at Su Ziqiu's demeanor, I immediately remembered her, so I killed her, it's as simple as that." ”

"It's as simple as that?" Lin Yue repeated it expressionlessly.

"That's right, it's that simple!"

Xia Honglie laughed and said: "Baili Fengzhi told me that she came by my mother's will, saying that I am the son of the God Emperor, and I have the most noble blood in the world flowing in my body, and no one can bully me, so I understand, I can kill whoever I want, what does the experience of others have to do with me?" ”

He looked at Lin Yue with an evil smile, "You want to avoid it?" There are many people in this world who are more noble than you, and in the eyes of some people, you are just an animal that can be slaughtered at will, this is the most common perception, how can you avoid it? ”

Lin Yue looked at Xia Honglie expressionlessly and did not speak.

After a while, he said lightly: "I understand, you can be quiet for a while." ”

After speaking, he took out a water bladder from the package around his waist, pinched Xia Honglie's cheek, and forced him to open his mouth and pour him a large mouthful of trapped soul water.

"You...... Don't kill me yet? ”

Xia Honglie looked at him with a frown, then lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

Lin Yue glanced at him indifferently.

If he could, he really wanted to kill Xia Honglie immediately.

But......

He didn't want to lose his life for this kind of person.

Although it was said in the secret of the five rings level that this phantom array enchantment could isolate the breath, there were no more than 100 cultivators in the world who could see through this enchantment.

But you don't have to think about it to know that it will definitely not be able to stop the resonance of heaven and earth caused by the death of the prince.

Once the body dies, the bloodline supernatural can resonate with the heaven and earth in the entire Dayong territory, what an incredible power?

Moreover, the resentment of the soul will be engraved on him, which is even more impossible to solve.

"It depends on how much this cave can help me."

Lin Yue took a deep breath, turned his head to glance at the darkness in the depths of this cave, and then took out a heavy dark red wooden box from the package and gently opened it.

The moment the wooden box was opened, a bright and soft light poured out like water, completely dispelling the little darkness around it.

Long pearl.

This is a knack that cultivators refine.

Although it was not a treasure, it was a rare treasure for mortals, and it was found by him through a one-ring-level secret last month.

Under the soft and clear light, Lin Yue held this long pearl in his hand and walked towards the depths of the dark and deep cave.

Footsteps echoed.

The darkness gradually receded.

In a few moments, he was in the deepest part of the cavern.

The depth of this cave is not as wide as at the entrance, but rather narrow and cramped, only a few feet wide, and the height of the cave is less than a zhang.

And here, there are two corpses lying there.

The two corpses, one on the left and one on the right, sat facing each other with their backs against the stone wall.

Last time it was too dim, Lin Yue didn't look carefully, but after careful observation at this time, he suddenly made a discovery.

The corpse on the left, wearing a white robe embroidered with gold silk moire, has only a dry skeleton left on its body, judging from the large pelvis and the slender skeleton, it may have been a woman before her death.

The female skeleton held a rusty iron sword in her hand, the blade piercing the chest of the corpse opposite, nailing it to the wall.

It's like her last sword, and she dies with the other party here.

And the corpse sitting across from her looked extremely weird and terrifying.

Although it is not a skeleton, it is just wrapped in a layer of wrinkled skin, which seems to have lost flesh and blood, only a layer of epidermis remains, and it looks extremely terrifying and ugly, and even the appearance before death is not recognized.

I can only barely recognize that it is a man.

The two corpses sat quietly opposite each other, as if they had looked at each other for an unknown number of years.

Let the years erode and decay.

No matter how colorful he was in life, he was just a skin and a dry bone after death.

Lin Yue silently looked at the corpse of the male skin, and slowly took out the skin that fell off Xia Honglie's face from his arms.

After a while, he said softly: "I don't know you, but in any case, it was the treasure you left that saved me, if I have the opportunity, I will bury you again." ”

When he first came to this cave, he found this strange skin that had fallen off from the face of this corpse, and confessed to the owner with blood, so that he could get this strange treasure.

It's called -

The appearance of all beings.

This strange face cannot be damaged by fire, water, and sword.

And its most bizarre ability is to make one person perfectly disguise as another.

As long as you can obtain a small part of the opponent's body, such as blood, hair, etc., this strange treasure 'sentient appearance' can be broken down and discerned, and after wearing the sentient appearance, it can be perfectly disguised.

Whether it is the appearance, flesh, bones, shape, breath of life...... It's all exactly the same.

This is the wonderful use of the appearance of all beings.

An unprovoked human face is actually the face of all beings in the world.