They didn't find any trace of the ghost upstairs, only Jiuliu smelled the yin qi, but it had already run away, and the group could only retreat in a huff.

After a while, they went to the street, and when they passed a road, Wang Qilin was talking to Ma Ming here, Xu Da suddenly subconsciously walked back, and he was about to cross an intersection with a smile.

On the southeast side of the intersection, someone was unloading grain from the ox cart, and the bull pulling the cart suddenly got frightened and lowered his head and ran forward, with two sharp and tough horns on his head, like two pitch-black sickles!

Fat Wuyi quickly dodged, his body turned into a green dog, and his limbs stomped on the ground, knocking the bull to the ground from the side.

At this time, the horns were only one foot away from Xu Da.

Wang Qilin didn't react.

The main thing is that the bull is on the side of the intersection, and when Xu Da suddenly walked back to the intersection, the two were too close.

The bull tossed on the ground, got up and 'mooed' twice, and walked towards his master blankly but submissively.

The owner was stunned, and when he saw it come back, his eyes were red, and he picked up the whip and went to beat the bull......: "What are you doing?

If his bull hits someone, then he's going to have multiple dads.

Pension is not a simple matter, and it is even more fatal to provide for a young person.

The bull was frightened and frightened, shrunk his head and stepped back, his two big eyes were like brass bells, his huge and burly body was like a haystack, and his master was to him what duckweed was to a big fish, but he did not resist.

Wang Qilin went up and snatched the whip and shook his head and said, "Don't hit it, it's been harmed, someone scared your cow and wanted to hit my brother." ”

The owner of the bull was frightened when he saw that they were dressed in black clothes, and he was immediately overjoyed when he received Wang Qilin's forgiveness, and hurriedly bowed.

Wang Qilin patted the bull's head and tickled it, then went back and asked Xu Dadao, "What's the matter?" Why did you suddenly go backwards?"

Xu Da said stupidly: "It's damn, just now a girl suddenly undressed, doesn't the uncle want to see a lively scene?"

Wang Qilin frowned and said, "The ghost is confused, right?"

Fat Wuyi shook his head and said, "Seventh Master, there is indeed a girl who is undressing, and I have seen it." ”

Wang Qilin was stunned, no wonder he would stay with Xu Da, it turned out to be two old men.

Naturally, this is still a ghost summoning people.

Ma Ming said in a deep voice: "Seventh Master, this ghost is very powerful, he can cast spells in broad daylight to confuse Xu Ye, it seems that we have to be careful." ”

Xie Toad said meaningfully: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable may not be a ghost. ”

Wang Qilin asked, "If it's not a ghost, how can it be a ghost who summons people?"

Xie Toad stroked his beard and smiled? Laugh without saying a word.

The demeanor of a man of the world.

It's a pity that Shen Yi immediately dubbed him: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Dao Ye doesn't know, but Dao Ye has to pretend to know but don't want to say it?" Otherwise, won't you underestimate my Dao Master in the future?"

Xie Toad glared at him angrily: "Get out." ”

Did he leave in a huff? This time, Shen Yi, the bald donkey, was seen through his heart? Failure, failure!

The two sides parted ways, Wang Qilin also left Fat May 1st, and he left it to Ma Ming? If there is an urgent matter, let Fat May Day inform himself? They took a boat and went to the countryside.

As for the ultimate cause of the destruction of villages such as the diversion of the Great Reed River and the uphill and downhill slopes, they have found it in the county records.

Many years ago, when it was still a former dynasty? The previous dynasty was not virtuous, and the sky was not blessed? One year when the weather was the same as this year? Great drought.

Didn't the uphill and downhill villages have reed rivers flowing through them like they do now? How many villages are located away from the river? So God doesn't rain? The farmland in the village could not be irrigated, and the food rations of the people in the village were about to be lost.

So the villages began to fetch water, and the uphill and downhill slopes were no exception.

But the place where the uphill and downhill slopes is a corner, surrounded by dirt mountains, and the weather is drought, and the grass and trees on the soil mountains do not grow well? Yellow and sparse.

Looking for some watersmiths in the village? Digging several wells for days in a row? But no water has been dug up.

Then someone had a dream one night? I dreamed that there was water under the ground in a place in the village, and a spring was hidden.

When he woke up, he told the well team about it, but there was really no water at that time. Seeing that the crops were about to die, the well-drilling team became a live horse doctor, so they went to try.

At first, the well was still not drilled, and the well digging was quite deep and did not encounter water, and the well drilling team was desperate.

In desperation, people tend to make extreme choices, so they simply keep their heads down and continue to dig wells, thinking about how deep they can get water.

As for digging too deep and the shaft collapsing, the well-drilling team is not afraid of this.

Anyway, if they can't find a water source, the crops will die, and if the crops die, and they can't pay the rent and public grain, they will be arrested by the corrupt officials of the yamen, and the old and weak women and children in the family will starve to death.

Since you have to die, it's better to die clearly.

As a result, I don't know how much I dug down, and the ground began to get cold, but there was still no moisture.

Eventually, the person pulling the basket at the head of the well suddenly found that there was no movement under the well.

They bowed their heads and shouted but there was no response, only the cold wind howled.

It's not like summer, it's like winter.

The brothers below didn't know whether they were alive or dead, they were furious in their hearts, so they chose a bold one to tie up the rope and send it down.

As a result, the person who put the rope under his head still did not land, but was shivering from the cold.

At this time, what can be concluded is that the previous well-drilling team opened up somewhere, resulting in a vast space below, and all the people under the well-drilling team fell!

They divided into two routes, guarding the wellhead all the way, and going back all the way to get ropes, gathering all the ropes in the village, and then choosing a bold and thin man to send him down, and let him check the situation.

The hole in the ground is bottomless, and when I threw down a rock, I didn't hear an echo, and when I threw it down, I didn't hear a chicken flutter again.

This time they brought ropes from all over the village, but they sent the man down, and soon the man shook the rope and pulled them up.

After coming up, the man told them that there was a big hole below, which was very cold, and the person who disappeared from the first of their well drilling team had indeed fallen underneath, and it was estimated that it was cold and ruthless, and they would all be unconscious.

But there were no demons and monsters down there, and they quickly tied up the people who had fallen down and pulled them up.

Later, someone went down with a torch to see, there was no record of the county records under the specific well, it should be an ancient tomb, and there were rich burial goods in it, so they first took some ancient classics out to exchange money to buy food, and after a few years, they were bold and began to take the gold and jade objects for the burial.

According to the records in the county annals, this ancient king's tomb is near the uphill and downhill village, and Wang Qilin has a hunch that as long as they can find the ancient king's tomb, they will get some answers.

As a result, the tomb of this ancient king was not easy to find, and they searched all over the mountains for two days, but they never found any clues.

Eight Meow and Nine Six went into battle together, but they didn't find out, and now the four of them are honest.

In the evening, when the sky was full of red clouds, Wang Qilin sat on a hill and watched Xu Da catch grasshoppers, he was going to roast grasshoppers to eat tonight.

Seeing Xu Da scurrying around the mountains with Eight Meows and Nine Six, he was quite convinced: "Xu Ye, don't look at the lack of cultivation, this spirit is not ordinary, his energy is really strong!"

Xie Toad pinched his somewhat lame leg and sighed: "Still young, this young carcass is always so enviable." ”

Wang Qilin said: "No, this is Xu Ye's talent is very different, you see that I am also very young, but I don't have his energy and energy." ”

Shen Yi continued: "Seventh Master, you are not good at your body and bones, and your kidneys are deficient, so Suisui Niangzi always gives you supplements." ”

Wang Qilin said angrily: "Get out, Lao Tzu is not false at all, Lao Tzu is very vigorous!"

He flipped his fists and looked inwardly at the meridians.

True Qi boiled in his body like a rolling torrent, quickly circling around his eight veins.

He had a hunch that he was about to break through, and now he was close to the door.

In order to show his vigor, he deliberately went out to dig out the bird's nest to find the birds' eggs, but when he found the birds' nests, he would not take all the eggs away, at least one or two would be left.

A flock of birds flew above their heads, chirping and not knowing whether to scold him for his damage or praise him for being exquisite.

The sun went down, the bonfire went up, and Xu Da came back with strings of grasshoppers.

Wang Qilin lazily roasted a few bird eggs, pulled them out and asked while eating: "What are you doing with so many grasshoppers?

Xu Da skewered the grasshopper with bamboo silk, rolled it on the fire a few times and roasted it, fragrant.

He threw a mouthpiece of foam that he chewed in his mouth: "No, Uncle wants to make grasshopper sauce." Do you know grasshopper sauce? Lunan's famous dish, the uncle has a friend who is from there, he grew up eating grasshopper sauce, and said that it is old and fragrant. ”

Wang Qilin said: "Now that I don't eat anything, why can't we find the entrance to the ancient king's tomb?"

They thought about the possibility that the robbery hole leading to the tomb of the ancient king would be filled, so they searched extremely carefully, and as long as there were clues, they would strictly investigate.

Then for two days, I didn't find out its location, Xie Toad also used some secret techniques, and the ninety-six nose arched off a layer of skin, but I didn't find it.

Shen Yi also lost his patience and said, "Amitabha, Seventh Master, will this cave entrance not be near this mountain?"

Wang Qilin shook his head and said: "It must be here, if you want to dig wells in your village, you can't go to the territory of other villages?"

Xu Da ate the roasted grasshoppers one by one and asked, "Troll, you use your little brain and think about it carefully, do you have any impressions of weirdness in your mind?"

Shen Yi said: "Amitabha, no, the monk has been thinking about it for the past two days, but at that time, the monk was too young, and he never knew that there was a robbery hole and the tomb of the ancient king in the village." ”

"In the memory of the monks, our village, like other villages, my father and mother and the villagers are ordinary farmers. ”

He said and scratched his bald head: "Yes, if this robbery hole must be near us, will it be at the bottom of the river? ”

Xu Da snorted and laughed: "Ha, do you really think, at the bottom of the river? It's not impossible to be at the bottom of the river, but in that case, we won't be able to go down, according to the county chronicles, the thief hole is very deep, and the space below is also large, if it's all water......"

Wang Qilin shuddered when he thought about it.

He was not afraid of any demons and monsters, but he was afraid that there was a deep and dark channel under the river.

Xie Toad thought for a while and said: "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Shen Yi has given a new way, maybe the thief hole has been temporarily blocked, so the river has not been able to flow, there is also this possibility, right?"

With direction, the rest will be easy.

When the next day was in the middle of the day, the river warmed up, and Wang Qilin decided to go into the water with Xu Da and Shen Yi.

Xie Toad was left on the riverbank by him to respond, once there is a problem at the bottom of the river, the most important thing for them is to withdraw from the river, and at this time, people from outside need to have superb cultivation to cover them.

Wang Qilin took off his clothes and left his vest, and inserted five swords on it, he grabbed the Thunder God Sword in his hand, and went down to the bottom of the river with six swords.

The three of them entered the water with Eight Meow and Nine-Six, who had dived to the bottom of the river and was no stranger to this place.

The Dawei River is very wide in this section, and there are lush aquatic plants growing at the bottom of the river, and the water bubbles through, bringing the aquatic plants to dance.

Some of the aquatic plants are slender and blue-black, and they sway with the current as if they were dancing wildly.

Some aquatic plants are thick and full-bodied, mottled in color, and they are like water snakes swimming when they are driven by the current.

Wang Qilin often went down to the river when he was a child, but he had never seen such a river bottom, there was a strange and strange monster.

Xu Da is just an ordinary person, he can't hold his breath, Wang Qilin saw that he swam down several times and was very guilty, so he waved his hand at him and asked him to go back to the shore to be with Xie Toad.

Only him and Shen Yi were left underwater.

The two of them snorkeled together, and in order to guard against danger that appeared at any time, Wang Qilin did not separate from him.

The two of them swam for a while, but in the end they didn't find anything abnormal, and there were only thick aquatic plants at the bottom of the river.

This left both frustrated.

Shen Yi angrily swept the water and grass at the bottom of the river with his wand, and Wang Qilin noticed that a gloomy red swept by.

He immediately pressed Shen Yi and took the wand to pick open this piece of aquatic plants, and several neatly arranged red bricks appeared under the aquatic plants.

It's like the roof of a brick house.

Wang Qilin has long noticed that the local housing construction in Zhending Mansion is stable, and the roofs are neat and open.

This is because the area is rainy, foggy and mountainous, and many villages are built on mountains, and there are few large open and flat yards, so the countryside will build flat roofs as a small drying ground for occasional drying of grain.

Wang Qilin's sword cut off the aquatic weeds to reveal a piece of heaven and earth, which, as he expected, was a roof.

Looking at the rooftop, a guess popped into his mind:

At that time, the Great Reed River did not wash down the dirt and mountains where the uphill and downhill were located and then crushed over for diversion, but the uphill and downhill suddenly sank and were swallowed by the earth!

The whole village is plunged into the ground!

Later, the waters of the Dawei River came to occupy the area as a channel, and aquatic plants grew on the bottom of the river, covering the last traces of the subsidence of the village......

He also wondered, what is the relationship between the sinking of the village into the ground and the diversion of the Great Reed River?

It is now known to the outside world that the Dawei River was diverted, and eventually washed away the dirt and mountains to form a mudslide that swallowed up and down the slopes.

Could it be that the uphill and downhill slopes were first dragged underground by a mysterious force, and then this force single-handedly created the diversion of the Great Reed River to cover up all this?

He was pondering when suddenly there was another wave of water above him.

After noticing the fluctuations, Wang Qilin immediately raised his head with his sword and saw a burly figure coming down, it turned out to be Xu Da.

He looked at Xu Da suspiciously, and Xu Da pointed to his forehead with a smug expression.

At this time, Xu Da had a talisman on his forehead, just like a zombie who was killed by a corpse chaser.

With this talisman, Xu Da can breathe freely in the water, which is called an open heart.

Wang Qilin suddenly realized that it should be Xie Toad who gave him something like a water repellent.

He waved at Xu Da, Xu Da shook his head and beckoned at him.

Wang Qilin frowned and swam over, Xu Da swam forward, he chased behind, and then the two saw a cave looming in the aquatic grass.

Could this be the shaft leading to the tomb of the ancient king?

But when did the hole appear? He remembered that he and Shen Yi had swept through the place before, and there was no hole.

I'm afraid someone is messing with it!

With this thought, he cautiously went to the entrance of the cave and looked down, Xu Da was beside him, and then-

The cave was like a monster's mouth, suddenly opened, and swallowed the two of them violently!

The river disappeared and the wind howled.

Wang Qilin suddenly lost his buoyancy, and a sense of weightlessness appeared in the bottom of his heart, and he shouted: "Sword out!"

The Thunder God Sword that was originally held in his mouth immediately fell at his feet, he stepped on the Thunder God Sword and fell, and there was a sound falling above his head, he estimated that this was Xu Da, so he raised his hand to raise fire to the sky and caught Xu Da.

However, the position didn't seem to be right, and Xu Da let out a miserable scream.

I don't know what kind of place this is, it was extremely dark, there was no light at all, so that Wang Qilin couldn't see anything clearly.

His imperial sword fell quickly, and after landing on the ground, he put down Xu Datong's imperial six sword to guard the surroundings.

The space in this place began to grow, and he tried to stare wide, and saw Xu Da's figure standing still in front of him, as if he was looking at something carefully.

So he walked over and asked, "Master Xu, what are you looking at here?" ”

Fortunately, Xu Da had obtained the water repellent and came back before, he had Sumeru mustard seeds, which contained fire bun insect candles and mirage candles, etc., and he could light a fire when he arrived at this place.

If only Wang Qilin and Shen Yi were really blind, they would be similar to bare buttocks when they entered the water, and there would be a hole in the whole body to put things, but it would be impossible for the two of them to do this-

After all, the mouth is eating and talking, and the candle is in the mouth, isn't it messy?

Xu Da's voice sounded behind him: "What are you looking at, uncle, look at a fart, uncle is looking for clothes, this place is really cold!"

Wang Qilin was stunned when he heard the voice behind him, wasn't Xu Da in front of him? If he was talking behind his back, then who was this figure in front of him?

He immediately took a step back to widen the distance, and said in a deep voice: "Master Xu, light the candle!"

The fire fold brought a red flame, followed by a green glow.

At the moment when the firelight of the fire fold appeared, Wang Qilin vaguely saw some figures approaching in the light.

But as soon as the candlestick burned, the surroundings became clean.

Then he knew that the place was not clean.

Xu Da's face was green and green as the green light of the candle was shining, and Wang Qilin advised: "Hurry up and arm to the chrysanthemum, this place is not right." ”

Xu Da put the tiger and leopard and the golden jade clothes into the Sumeru mustard seeds, and he even had a towel in it, which he carefully dried before putting on his clothes and helmet.

At this time, the bell rang overhead.

Wang Qilin hurriedly opened his arm when he heard the sound, and there was the sound of the bell to locate it, and he was now highly cultivated, and he accurately caught the falling ninety-six.

Jiuliu still fell hard after falling into his arms, and screamed softly in his arms in pain: "Boom." ”

Daddy gave Niel a smooth ride.

Since ninety-six has come down, the eight meows have naturally come down.

Wang Qilin cautiously shouted to the side: "Eight meows, did you fall to death?"

Xu Da held up the candlestick, and in the green candlelight, Eight Meow slowly landed from the air.

Its little tail became very large, and one paw tugged at a small tail, just like pulling two parachutes.

Landing safely.

Double the protection, double the security!

Eight Meow's expression was smug after he landed.

This height is nothing to Meow Ye, and Meow Ye can't die even if he jumps off the cliff!

Seeing this, Xu Da was very admirable: "Ah Ba is okay, this posture is very chic." ”

Eight meows put away the little tail and stood on the ground, and the two little claws hung down on their chests and sighed: But the meow is bad, pretend to be a force.

Xu Da continued: "But Ba Meow, you are too selfish, you see that Xiao Jiu almost fell to death, why do you only care about yourself and ignore your daughter-in-law? What does this mean? Is there another dog outside?"

Eight Meow looked at him in horror: You really don't say anything at all!

Jiuliu struggled to jump to the ground and shook the hair off his body, and the jingling bell rang tightly.

Listening to this voice, Wang Qilin's heart sank: "Bad dish, Master Xu, aren't we going into the underworld again?"

Xu Da said: "Seventh Master, don't say it, your mouth has been opened." ”

Wang Qilin asked him to stay here and wait for Shen Yi to see if Shen Yi's head would come down, and he took the Bun Worm Candle to the front to take care of it.

It's a vast area, and there's no eye on it – the candlelight of the Bun Worm Candle is useful for warding off evil spirits, but the light is the same as that of ordinary candles, and the illumination range is limited.

He walked over to the place where he had seen the figure before, and this time saw a group of people standing in a line.

The queue was neat, so when he looked from behind, it was as if it was a person's back.

Several people in the candlelight were dressed in uniform robes, and they stood quietly with their eyes closed and their heads bowed, and they could be seen up close with their mouths wide open, as if they were about to shout something.

Wang Qilin's scalp was a little numb when he looked at this scene, he was not afraid of sneakiness, but these people were even more terrifying than ghosts.

In the dark strange cave, I saw a group of expressionless people, these people opened their mouths but no one spoke, all of them were pale and frightening, even if there was a pale green candlelight, they were as white as lime powder.

The two waited for a while and Shen Yi didn't come down, so they decided not to wait, and the two came to explore this place together.

Wang Qilin had a hunch, and they had found their destination.