Ma Er quietly spat at the shopkeeper, and then whispered to himself: "Those girls are so beautiful, they don't look at it in vain." He was stunned for a while, then remembered what the shopkeeper had told him, and quickly cleaned the shop.

Shangguan Yun couldn't hear it clearly, but the two people in the shop planned to rest, and he could only go back to the inn. He was lying on the bed of the inn, and there were many doubts in his heart, Bishuizhuang was so strange, it must not be an ordinary family, but how did those girls get involved with the people in the court, whether they were from the Valley of Hundred Flowers?

The next day, Shangguan Yun used some porridge at the stall outside the inn, and went out of the city to Bishuizhuang to investigate, he guarded outside the village all day, but still no one came from the river, so he had to go back to the city. On the third day, he went again, and when he saw that there was no one outside the village, he simply sat cross-legged in a hidden place and practiced, while watching the movement in the village.

After five or six days, I saw two young girls rowing a bamboo raft from upstream, they parked the bamboo raft at the dock behind the village, got off the bamboo raft, passed directly through the village, and went out to Shizhou City.

Shangguan Yun stood up, found a bamboo forest, and used the red blood sword to cut twenty or thirty large bamboos the thickness of an arm, and dragged them all to the riverside downstream. He used bamboo strips to tie the bamboo poles into a raft, and took a slightly longer bamboo pole as a support for artemisia, planning to follow behind when the second daughter returned.

Two hours later, the two girls carried baskets on their backs into the Zhuangzi, got on the bamboo raft and went back upstream.

Shangguan Yun didn't dare to let them notice, and waited until the second daughter walked away before slowly following, but he couldn't row, and it took a long time to make the bamboo raft not go upstream, but went down the river for four or five hundred zhang. He gritted his teeth and found the trick when it was almost dark, and although it wasn't very fast, he was able to swim against the current. At this time, the second daughter didn't know where to go, Shangguan Yun didn't want to delay, and rowed upstream overnight.

After walking in the river for four or five hours, there was nothing unusual about it, and the sky was already bright again. The river road here is getting narrower and narrower, the river surface is only three or four zhang wide, the cliffs on both sides are towering, not less than thirty or forty zhang, almost like a knife cutting an axe, the top of the cliff is full of hundreds of thousands of years of ancient trees and withered vines.

The two sides of this river are verdant and majestic, the cliffs are steep and strange, the waterfalls are pouring down wildly, and the river surface is gurgling, which is really a great spectacle. It can really be called the Qingjiang River rising white clouds, the cliff ring the peak, the overpass is connected with a group of holes, and the waterfall is foggy. When Shangguan Yun saw this wonderful scenery, he couldn't help but secretly admire, what a strange and dangerous hidden place.

After walking for four or five miles, I saw that there are many caves under the cliffs on both sides, the cave is connected with the river, the bottom of the cave is black and dark, and I don't know how deep it is, the water flow in the hole is slow and urgent, it seems that these caves are still connected to the underground dark river. Shangguan Yun was looking at the scenery on both sides, but he saw something in a cave, he turned around to inspect it, and came to the entrance of the cave, only to see a few bamboo rafts parked in the cave more than ten zhang, and there was no one.

Shangguan Yun rowed the bamboo raft into the cave, and saw that the river water slowly flowed towards a black and dark hole at the bottom of the cave. There are stalagmite pillars everywhere, and there are many stalactites on the top, so it turned out to be a karst cave. There are a lot of dents on the ground, this cave should be walked by people all year round, except for those mysterious girls, I don't know who else will come to this hidden place. The dents went deep into the hole, and it was pitch black inside, and I don't know how deep it was.

A few bamboo wormwoods had dried up and could be made into torches, Shangguan Yun was unceremonious, took one over, and cut it into two or three feet long with a red blood sword, he lit the torch and walked along the traces of the underground to the depths of the cave.

There are many forks in this cave, fortunately, there are many dents in the cave, Shangguan Yun did not take the wrong way, and walked more than ten miles in the cave, and then came to an exit.

Outside the cave is a large forest of ancient trees, which are so thick that they have to be hugged by two or three people. The trees here cover the sky and the sun, and there is not much light below, and the forest is very dark. The ground is full of dead branches and fallen leaves, which are feet thick, but there is no trace of people walking on them. Shangguan Yun followed the trail all the way, and he didn't take the wrong path, and he didn't see any traces of people moving in other forks, the two girls undoubtedly came out of this hole, he threw away the torch, and walked towards the dense forest.

This forest grows very well, not like the one I just saw in the river, the trees on the top of the cliff by the river are entangled with a lot of vines and the like, and there are many shrubs under the trees, except for the big trees that are hugged by two or three people, even a single grass is rare, and the whole forest is not like a natural generation, but it seems to be artificial.

After walking for more than ten miles, he still did not get out of the woods, but the woods were so big, he was afraid that he would be discovered after staying in the forest for a long time, so he took a light stride forward. After walking for more than fifty miles, he was still in the woods, and the woods seemed to be boundless. Shangguan Yun slowed down his pace, and slowly walked forward for four or five miles, only to see that there was a general scene everywhere, and he could no longer distinguish between east and west, north and south, and he unknowingly got lost in this wood.

Shangguan Yun calmed down and groaned secretly, looking at the appearance of this forest, these big trees should have been lined up in formation, otherwise why would they be like this?

He could only solve the Nine Palaces Bagua Array, so he found a formation according to the method of cracking, and after crossing a few big trees according to the number of the Nine Palaces, he turned around and crossed a few more. After walking for two or three pillars of incense, it is said that I should also walk out of the woods, but I don't want to be still in the woods, and then look at the surroundings are still the same.

Shangguan Yun pondered and meditated, tried several times, but still couldn't find a way, he climbed the tree, wanting to go up to the top to see what this forest really looked like and how big it was. When he came to the top of the tree, he saw that the canopy of the tree was full of mist, and it was so white that he could not see it clearly, so he had to go down to the ground again.

He couldn't help but regret in his heart, if he hadn't been reckless, how could he have landed here, he didn't want this seemingly simple woods to hide a formation, which must have been set up to prevent outsiders from approaching. I don't know what kind of formation this is, where the eye of the formation is, if I can't get out, I'm afraid I can only wait here to die.

Shangguan Yun sat here for a day and a night, and his heart became more and more anxious, Xiao Yingying's whereabouts had not yet been inquired, and he himself was in a desperate situation, he only hated that he had not caught the two girls and questioned them before, and it was better than being lost in this formation alone. Although he regretted it, he still did not give up, he stood up and walked forward slowly, wanting to see how the big trees were expelling the formation.

I saw that these big trees were more or less divided into a group, the most were eight or nine, and the few were one or two, which was undoubtedly the number of the nine palaces. However, this formation is extremely complicated, although it is somewhat similar to the Nine Palaces Bagua Array, it is not completely arranged in the Nine Palaces Bagua Array, which not only implies the direction of the five elements, but also is far more simple than the number of the Nine Palaces. He walked and watched, and it took him three or four hours to finally see some clues, this forest can be said to be the Nine Palace Bagua Array, or it can be said that it is not.