After being silent for a long time, the dry heart suddenly sighed, and said to a spiritual position in the incense case that was pasted by a faded red paper:

"Senior brother, it's been fifty years, if it weren't for your original entrustment, Jing Xiu wouldn't have survived to this day, and he kept this remnant, just for the last hope of our Iron Sword Gate!

Over the years, the demons of the King Kong Alliance have been coerced many times, and they have become more and more raging in recent years, but I am afraid that my time is running out, but it is a pity that my cultivation has been sealed and formed a wasted person, otherwise, why do I need to make such a decision, no matter what, I have to keep the last roots and seedlings of my Iron Sword Gate. ”

Speaking of this, tears flashed in his cloudy eyes, and he was feeling sad when Su Mai's footsteps were heard behind him.

The dry heart Taoist raised his head, coughed lightly, and said, "Come in." ”

When Su Mai heard this, he suddenly heard the master say, "Kneel down and say goodbye to all the ancestors." ”

Su Mai said this, kowtowed respectfully three times in front of the incense case, and then stood up and stood on the side of the dry heart.

The dry heart Taoist nodded, looked at the incense case, and seemed to say to himself: "Senior brother, this child has been with you for three years, presumably you are also familiar with it, I wanted to rely on him to cheer up my iron sword gate, but heaven will make people, it seems that the iron sword gate is afraid that it will be broken in my hands of Shi Jingxiu, no matter what, this child is not a bad person, if there is a chance in the future, or can have a turnaround, I hope that the senior brother and the ancestors are in the spirit of the sky, bless him to escape, and I will have no worries." ”

After speaking, he reached out and took out a sealed letter from his arms, turned to Su Mai and said:

"Apprentice, this letter is left to you for the teacher, don't keep it properly, if you know that the teacher is no longer alive in the future, you can open it and read it, and before that, you must not open it lightly. ”

After speaking, he handed the letter to Su Mai, Su Mai took it carefully, put it away closely, and was about to ask, and said dryly:

"For the sake of the teacher, you have many doubts, and now that the situation is urgent, you will know in the future. ”

Then he turned and went out toward the gate of the courtyard.

Su Mai hurriedly followed, only to see that the Dry Heart Daoist did not walk towards the bamboo forest on the left, but hurried towards the cliff on the right.

Su Mai followed closely behind, bypassing a low bush and coming straight to a protruding lone pine below the cliff face.

This lone pine grows luxuriantly, is very vigorous, although it is only a lone branch, but it is a pavilion like a cover, quite a single tree into a forest.

When Xiang Sun Su Mai was bored, he also came here, but he felt that this tree grew very strangely, and he didn't care.

The ancestral hall is located in a small valley, surrounded by mountains on three sides, with bamboo forests on the left and a large area of low shrubs on the right, which is rarely visited.

The surrounding cliffs and cliffs are mostly strange rocks and lonely peaks, and there are occasionally a few bushes of miscellaneous trees, but there are few tall trees such as pine trees.

This tree grows alone in the shade under this cliff, there is common sense, although some curiosity, but because of the surrounding grass and branches, accompanied by thorns, Su Mai has no supernatural powers, and he is too lazy to provoke the pain of this flesh, so he has never been to this lonely pine.

Today's dry heart suddenly came here, how much surprised him, if he really wants to escape, he should go out of the valley from the bamboo forest, under this lonely pine, there is another mystery?

Just as he was about to ask, the dry heart in front of him had come to a protruding stone platform on the right side of the lone pine.

Stretched out his right hand and leaned under the moss-covered stone platform, groped for a moment, pressed the stone platform with his left hand, and supported it with his right hand, only to hear a gurgling sound, as if a boulder was rolling.

After a while, I saw that the stone platform in front of me suddenly moved about three feet to the right, revealing a black whirring hole, I don't know how deep it is, where it leads.

Su Mai approached, but saw that the cave was pitch black, invisible, gusts of gloomy wind, blowing from the darkness full of unknowns, a little cold and weird.

Seeing Su Mai coming over, Ku Xin said loudly: "Don't look at it, hurry in?"

"Here?" Su Mai was stunned for a moment.

"I can't see anything in here, how can I get in?"

The dry heart stopped, and said:

"This is a secret passage that I stumbled upon many years ago, it may be an escape path left by an ancestor of this sect, and I don't know where it leads, but there is a wind blowing, indicating that there is a way to be found, so you can escape from here and leave on your own. ”

"Master, why don't we go together?"

Su Mai said suddenly, with a little expectation in his eyes.

The Dry Heart Daoist insisted on letting him escape today, although he didn't know the reason, but it was definitely not just that he was afraid that he would be punished.

If he escaped alone, leaving the master alone to face it, it would be difficult for him to accept it.

"Nonsense, as a teacher is the elder of the Iron Sword Gate, guarding the ancestors of the past dynasties, when he was born in Si and died in Si, how can he abandon the door and flee. ”

Dry heart said categorically.

"Then I am also a disciple of the Iron Sword Sect, and I also have the responsibility to protect the Ancestor Hall, and I must not escape alone!"

Su Mai straightened up and said loudly to the Dry Heart Daoist.

"It's because you're a disciple of the Iron Sword Sect that you're leaving"

He said anxiously, and there seemed to be a slight anger in his tone.

"There are so many disciples of the Iron Sword Sect, why do you want me to ......?"

Before Su Mai finished speaking, he suddenly felt his feet off the ground, his back collar tightened, and his whole body was lifted up by the dry heart Taoist, only to feel that it was dark in front of him, and the wind was whistling in his ears, and the person had been thrown into the hole.

For a moment, only a muffled sound was heard, and the hole behind him had been re-closed, completely separating Su Mai from the Dry Heart Daoist.

As soon as Su Maifu landed on the ground, he felt that his feet were very steady, and his hands groped to the sides, and found that the place where he was doing was very rough, with the feeling of an artificial axe chiseling, like a passage.

Touching the wall of the cave backwards, he touched a stone wall in a short time, and the front was already at the end, the stone cave was closed, and there was no turning back.

His hands slapped heavily on the stone wall, constantly calling for the master, and for a long time, his voice was a little hoarse, but Su Mai didn't realize it.

His echo could be heard from the depths of the cave, but there was not the slightest movement outside, I don't know if the Dry Heart Daoist couldn't hear it or had already left.

Finally, Su Mai was still tired, and his body unconsciously sat down along the stone wall.

It was still dark all around, the eyes couldn't see, the world seemed to be still, except for Su Mai's own breathing, there was no other sound, only the occasional cool breeze that came in, so that he could still feel his presence.

The Patriarch Hall couldn't go back, and the road ahead was unpredictable, and Su Mai suddenly felt helpless.

This feeling was felt when Tianzi left him three years ago, but at this moment, in this black hole isolated from the world, it is almost desperate.

However, it was not that he was worried about himself, but he was thinking about how the master, who had a strange illness and could not use his magical powers, should deal with the investigation of the torture hall.

After all, in the past three years, they have relied on each other and lived alone, and they really can't see that the Dry Heart Dao and which elder in the sect have any friendship.

"Master, why is that?"

Su Mai sighed in his heart, he couldn't understand the abnormal behavior of today's dry heart Taoist, and he always felt that the master had something to hide from him.

Thinking of this, he suddenly remembered the letter handed to him by the dry-hearted Taoist when he was leaving, and reached out and took it into his arms.

When he touched the thin envelope, the words of the master's explanation sounded in his ears again, and Su Mai unconsciously retracted his hand and muttered:

"Master, you must be safe, I would rather never read this letter. ”

After sitting for a moment, Su Mai suddenly stood up and yelled into the darkness in front of him as if venting.

Immediately, he took another step forward, turned around, knelt down to the stone wall, and knocked three times, bidding farewell to the master's dry heart, farewell to the ancestral hall, and farewell to the years of cultivation in the Iron Sword Gate.

Even if you can survive in the future, I'm afraid you won't be able to come back.

Standing up silently and turning around, Su Mai stretched out his right hand, touched the wall of the cave and walked forward cautiously, stepping heavily on the ground with his feet from time to time, for fear that if he was not careful, he would fall into unknown danger.