Ningxia Town is located in the north of Jinzhou Shangyong County south of more than 20 miles, the surrounding mountains are relatively gentle, the road to Sichuan and Shu, the road to the north usually hit this side of the past, there are many business travelers here to rest and stay, some martial arts of the green forest, chivalrous also come here to inquire about the news, or to find a way to live.

There is only a long street of blue bricks, with several low lanes on both sides, just after a heavy rain in summer, the eaves are dripping with water droplets, and the muscular blacksmith smashes the hammer to drive away the green forest people who only inquire and do not buy, the old bustard who shouts and scolds, and the girl who counts the girl in the building, and sees the guests with swords on their backs coming in, and the fat face squeezes out flattery, and the crumbs fall down.

Compared with the lively scene of the town at the foot of the mountain, the north stretches to the foothills, the birds flap their wings, and the black pressure rushes out of the forest, and the branches hanging with water droplets shake violently, and the splashed water stains hit the flying clothes and hats.

In the dim forest, Zuo Zhengyang dragged the long knife and stepped on the fallen leaves, stepped on a tree, turned around in mid-air, and the knife waved away from one arm, slashing down angrily behind.

Burst!

The roots drilled out of the ground were broken in two, and they retracted into the ground with green smoke, and fled to the ground, spreading through the light spots on the ground and returning in the direction of Lanruo Temple.

The one-armed figure in mid-air fell to the ground, and the erected leaves of the coat fit back to the body one by one, and in the sound of relief, Zuo Zhengyang lowered the knife edge, dragged it on the ground and walked to the nearby Qingyan, leaning on it and sitting down on the wet moss.

Digging out a small leather bag, he sighed, held the dry food that had been soaked in the rain and pasted in the palm of his hand, and said in surprise, even if it is a breakthrough in martial arts, it has almost reached the point of cultivation, but in the face of food, and the monster in the Lanruo Temple opposite, the manpower is exhausted after all.

Chewing the dry food in his mouth, he untied the water bag and poured a sip of water, and washed down the subsistence food, for more than half a month, he went to find the monster almost every day, knowing that he couldn't beat it, but it was a while to be able to drag it out.

After resting for a while, he grabbed the long knife and got up from the ground and walked to Lanruo Temple again.

"It should be regarded as honing martial arts and cultivating the Dao heart. ”

The broken steps stepped over the wet dead branches, walked through the spots of light cast by the gaps in the trees, and on the stone monument full of dead vines, several old crows flew up, gathered their wings and landed on them.

Woo whoa –

In the ominous hissing, Zuo Zhengyang slammed the handle of the knife in his hand to the ground, looked at the dilapidated and desolate temple, and roared.

"Dryad, I'm here again!!"

The sound was loud and shaking, and the crows on the monument flapped their wings and flew away, but the building not far away was not moving at all.

"The dryad who doesn't want skin, sucks the essence of human flesh and blood, and will be robbed by thunder in the future, and his soul will be destroyed!!"

"Dryad, dare to plunder people, why don't you dare to come out!!"

A roar echoed, the walls around the ruined temple were like a long corridor, and the flying god Shen Buddha dotted with blue ink suddenly had an illusion of angry eyes.

Behind the temple, next to the collapsed earth spirit monument, the deep and secluded ancient well 'poo' sounded the sound of water, sinking under the green water layer, the mud and sand are blown by the shade, the aquatic plants are dense like people's long hair, swaying with the water waves, in the gap, a hole door is exposed, extending the water corridor, and some lights are cast on the water surface.

Above the broken water, there is a spacious cave, the surrounding cave walls are steep and overlapping, showing many strange shapes, and the stalactites on the top of the cave are unevenly hung upside down.

The bronze lampposts that had been on for a long time were mottled and rusted, burning quietly against the wall, and occasionally a slight wind blew from somewhere, and the bean-sized lamp shook lightly a few times.

Hmm..... Hmmmm......

There are still several openings in the cave, and one of them has a faint whisper like covering the mouth, and five figures wrapped in countless tiny roots into zongzi stand on the ground, filled with an unpleasant smell of feces and urine.

When it was time to eat, the tendrils were removed from the person's mouth and the juice was fed to the other person so as not to starve to death halfway.

Feeling the whiskers on the side of his mouth move, Wang Feng hurriedly pursed his mouth, exhaled, and hurriedly spoke in a low voice.

"Are you brothers still alive?"

As soon as the words fell, the surrounding words suddenly sounded gossiping.

"I can't die!" "I'm not born in the same month in the same year, and if I want to die, we must die together." ”

"Bad luck, what do you say about not dying, hey, by the way, do you also eat that tree sap? It's really bitter and hard to swallow......"

It was Ma Liu's voice speaking, like the Zhang Qi next to him cracking his mouth and squeezing out laughter.

"Haha, then I'm okay here, it tastes good, like honey. ”

"Then why do I smell of citrus? ”

.......

Wang Feng sighed, and when he saw the roots stretched out, even if he didn't open his mouth, he would force it in, and simply sucked it and opened his mouth.

"Trapped in the sea and hard to make a boat, why is it too anxious to ridicule each other. ”

The other three people around were silent, and in the last row of root cages, a scholar named Ning Caichen probed his face vigorously, holding the rhizome, and his eyes aimed in the direction of the four people.

"Four brothers, what are you talking about?"

Over there, the four of them opened their mouths in unison: "Shut up!"

"Oh. Ning Caichen shrunk his neck and continued to pour the juice into his stomach, the taste was extremely unpalatable, and when he ate it for the first time, he almost vomited all the bile water, but there was no other food in the cave at all, and when he got to the back, he had to eat it if he didn't eat it.

Sometimes the monster would come over to see them, and then leave, and they didn't know what was going on outside, how long it had been.

The stalactite tip seeps through the water droplets, ticking lightly into the dim stone room, the cave on the other side, deep and spacious, there is a huge stone bed in the middle, hung with black gauze on all sides, on the wall, the wide black background gold-rimmed dress shows the back of the woman, looking at a bronze mirror, the fingertips gently knead under the veil.

Occasionally, listening to the movement of Lanruo Temple outside, he tilted his head and thought for a moment, continued to knead, and snorted lightly.

"Running again, this time I won't be fooled. ”

At a certain moment, the kneading fingers stopped suddenly, turned his head to look at the cave wall, as if he had seen through the thick bottom layer, felt something, hurriedly lifted the skirt and stood up, hurriedly took a few steps, coughed dryly twice, put his body gently, walked to the door of the cave and stretched out his hand, and in the dark, there was a naughty boy demon hanging in his belly pocket to come and help, only then did he kick the skirt, and Lianbu walked lightly to the cave room.

Water droplets dripped from the tip of the stalactite, and Wang Feng, who was still eating strange branch liquid, saw a black shadow swaying slowly to reveal the silhouette, so frightened that he closed his eyes and shrank into the cocoon.

The other four were also frightened, thinking that the monster was finally going to take them to open meat, and they swayed from side to side.

"This eldest sister, the five of us are hungry and bold, knock our teeth, you can go outside and look for another one. ”

"Yes, I and other scholars are thin, and I can't stand a bite from my sister. ”

"Full of nonsense, what's wrong with me waiting for scholars?! Reading the classics of the sages in vain, the scholars should collapse without changing their colors, but you talk like this!!?

At the innermost, Ning Caichen squeezed out his voice weakly: "Grandma....."

The dryad standing at the entrance of the cave over there, under the veil, heard the five people talking nonsense, the red lips opened slightly and chuckled, flicked the long sleeves of the black gauze, turned to leave, as if there was something urgent, with a group of little demons, ignoring the people in the cocoon, turning into black smoke and seeping into the stone cave.

The sky was slightly slanting, and Zuo Zhengyang, who was standing outside the temple and scolding, was holding a long knife, leaning against the stone tablet for a while, and squinting his eyes to look at the sunlight behind the trees.

"I'm afraid the dryad won't come......"

The sky suddenly darkened, and the branches and leaves of the forest shook wildly, making a loud noise.