At this time, I heard a loud sound from the direction of the giant face behind me, as if someone was dumping peanuts with shells, and I was worried that something would take a new turn, so I turned my head to see that the huge face composed of countless insects before was now like a sand sculpture, and it collapsed in an instant, and after the dust settled, the stone box that had fallen there appeared on the ground.

All visions and ghosts were gone, and all that was left beneath my body was a softening headless corpse. I pulled my order from it, and found that a large worm had pierced it. The worm, the size of a banana, had died, and its body quickly dried up and cracked, then shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.

The fleshy black stuff on the ground was now flowing away like ink, revealing the waterlogged ground, and I realized that it was a large funnel-shaped puddle, and the surrounding areas were very flat, and the place where I had fallen into the water happened to be a small area. Watching the dried corpse gradually soften, and finally turned into a crumpled white skin, I stretched it out with the master's order and stirred it a few times, and the white skin was like paint, and it was scattered in the water at once, and then sank into the depths with the current.

I stood up and found that my legs were probably a little sore because they were too tight just now, as if they were exercising too hard. So I limped towards the stone box, and halfway through I found the iron scissors that I thought I would be missing. Around the stone box, the black worms that had previously made up huge faces were now black oil, floating on the shallow water, and it was impossible to see that they were insects.

I put the order and scissors back into my satchel, and after some tossing just now, my satchel has become a soup chicken, and it will take several days to dry the contents when I turn around. At the moment, I simply gave up on myself, so I bent down and tried to pick up the stone box, but probably because I had been soaked in the water for too long, it was already full of water, and my hands and feet were soft, and I couldn't hold it at all. So I turned to Songzi and Qin Bukong and said, you two come over quickly, be careful of the deep puddle in the middle.

Qin Bukong seems to be in good health, as for why he fainted and fell unconscious before, I plan to ask him later. Songzi helped Qin Bukong and walked over, because of Qin Bukong's body, when they crossed the deep puddle, I also went to the edge of the deep puddle to help him, at this moment I am grateful to Qin Bukong, and it is not too much to say that if there was no guidance and rescue from him just now, everything would not have happened now, and I must have been unable to save my life. But now is not the time to express gratitude, after all, we are still underground, and the secret in the stone box has not yet been seen, so those sensational words should be said until we are all safe.

Because I couldn't move the box, I simply didn't move it. Matsuko and I worked together to straighten the box and pry the lid open. As I had expected, the box was filled with water, the same as the one we had encountered during the "Fish", except that the water was black and oily, and the worms I had just scattered on the surface looked very similar. We tilted the box and poured out the water, and as the stone box became less and less, we finally found that in addition to the protrusion on the lid with wax beads, as always, there was a wooden Taoist token at the bottom of the box.

The token is a bit muddy black, and the whole looks like a cuboid, but one end is semicircular, and it looks like a paperweight used to hold down paper when learning calligraphy, and it is only about half a foot long. I took it in my hand and observed it, and found that the end of the wooden strip was engraved with the original diagram of the five elements, that is, the pictographic symbols of gold, wood, water, fire and earth, and the two sides of the token were narrower and longer, and there were four characters engraved on each side, one side was "eyes like thunder and lightning", and the other side was "eight poles of glory".

It is relatively easy to understand, because when the Taoist family gives orders, they usually use the power of the gods to cast the number through the token, so these eight words should be catalyzing the ability of the "dragon" to guard the big ghost in this place, which means to watch the six roads and listen to the eight directions, and not let go of the slightest meaning, which is why Qin Bukong and I have been attacked one after another, and we have not provoked each other at all. It is equivalent to saying that this is a pardon for killing, as long as it is violated here, there is no intention of forgiveness.

The wider and longer sides are carved with separate patterns. One of them is a person meditating cross-legged, but there is a circle of light behind the person's head, indicating that it is a god, but the facial features are not clear and I really can't tell who it is. And the back of this person is carved with a lot of strange things, it looks like a lot of living beings, demons and monsters, the meaning of the whole picture is probably to say, this person has the meaning of suppressing demons and making demons and monsters unable to hurt their bodies. The other picture is much simpler, just a sword from top to bottom, with a long spiral wound on the sword, originally I thought it was a snake or a dragon, but when I looked closely, I found that it was a long worm, as if it were an earthworm. Among the five elements, earthworms, regardless of color or attributes, are centered on the earth, which also happens to confirm the order of the five elements of each hexagram in the previous Eight Gate Arrays, and the long worm here seems to be secretly indicating that we want to break this barrier, which must be related to insects.

This has been gradually confirmed since the previous time when I dug the hole, and the vicious fight just now exhausted almost all my energy, and it also proved to me with facts that the great ghost guarding the gate we want to defeat is actually a thousand-year-old insect Gu that uses the human body as a container.

For some reason, when I saw this token, I felt a sense of sadness in my heart. It's not because I had a premonition that the next four levels would be difficult, because I had already been mentally prepared for this difficulty when I decided to break through the level. What really saddened me was the senior master who left these things in the first place.

He seems to be more than capable of suppressing the Witch King's soul for thousands of years, and it turns out that he has done so for thousands of years. But he didn't set up a headless array, every strange door, every level, he left some solutions accordingly, although it was not so obvious, as if he was solving a puzzle, indicating that when he set up the formation, his heart was actually extremely lonely, he didn't want his soul to be found, but he was afraid that others wouldn't find it. Because the person who finds it is not necessarily a person with a very good heart, and if you can't find it, no one will know about the epic array you left behind.

That's why I'm sad, because I think he's lonely, proud of his skills, but probably buried deep in the ground forever. He seems to be looking for a confidant, but he is not sure whether this person is right or evil, so he leaves some real but ambiguous clues, which can be regarded as a test for future generations.

After I looked at the token in my hand, I handed it to Qin Bukong along with the wax bead, and Qin Bukong also looked at it carefully in the light, and the wax bead vibrated like a cicada from the moment I got it, just like the previous two beads. Qin Bukong asked, this is really a piece of wood, what kind of wood can be so intact after being soaked in water for thousands of years?

In fact, this is also one thing that I am very puzzled about, if the liquid in this stone box is the same as the first found in the place of "魀", it is specially chemically treated, then it should be shown from the inner wall of the box, but the inner wall is an ordinary stone, not only that, but also because of the perennial soaking, some powder has appeared on the surface, which means that the water in this box is actually ordinary groundwater, just like those who dig to the ancient tomb, open the sarcophagus after the water is the same.

Pine nut said that this kind of wood is called golden silk nan, which is a kind of camphor wood, and its own wood is fibrous, which has a very good effect of isolating water and oxygen. If something is going to rot, there are two necessary conditions, one is not waterproof and moisture-proof, and the other is not oxidation-resistant, and this kind of wood has both. Perhaps in addition, it has been immersed in closed water for many years, and it also has the effect of isolating oxygen, so it still does not rot.

I looked at the token carefully, and with the change of light on it, there were really golden water ripples, even the kind of water ripples like living water, and I was amazed to see it. And as soon as I got it out of the water, I quickly shook it off and dried the surface. At this moment, there is a feeling of being slightly moist and greasy to the touch, and I pinched it hard, but no water overflowed.

Thinking that this thing might have other uses in the future, we decided to take it with us, leaving only an empty stone box here. At this time, the pine nuts shone a flashlight directly above our heads, and at the top of the cave, which was about six or seven meters away from us, we saw a round black hole the size of a wellhead.

Songzi said that on the top of this hole, if there is no calculation error, it should be Tiji well, when the well was filled at the beginning, it must have dumped a lot of muck, but the space here is too large, how can not be filled, so simply seal the well, on the top of the monument.

Qin Bukong nodded and said That's right, look at the color on the wall of the cave, it seems that it has been soaked in water for a long time. I looked at it and found that the wall of the cave was closer to the mouth of the well, and the color was deeper than the top of the cave, which shows that many, many years ago, the water level in the hole where we stood was much higher than now, and it reached the position of the wellhead.

The three of us looked up at the mouth of the well for a long time, each thinking about our own thoughts. I don't know what Qin Bukong and Songzi were thinking, but I was thinking to myself, if it was really as the legend said, then this hole was chiseled by Lao Jun in the first place. At the beginning, he was at the mouth of the well and looked down at our position, and he was aware of himself.

And now we are looking up in the opposite direction, maybe we have become the self reflected by the water surface at the bottom of the well in the eyes of others, after all, although I am a Taoist, I am still in love with Hongchen.