Zhao Hong wiped the hot sweat on his forehead, gasped for breath, and then looked at the stainless steel broadsword in his hand. After several hours of digging, the blade was already full of potholes, and several large openings had been opened. Zhao Hong looked back and found that the huge rock had been dug into a depth of three zhang, if it weren't for the sound of water flowing in his ears becoming clearer and clearer, he would have given up in despair.

After adjusting his breathing slightly, Zhao Hong gritted his teeth and continued to swing the big knife.

With a thud, there was a loosening of the rock wall, and a crack more than a foot long broke open, and a thin light was cast from the gap, and fresh air penetrated from the other side of the rock wall. Zhao Hong was like a dead tree that had been dry for a long time and met Ganlin, he suddenly came to his senses, jumped up from the ground, used his strength to eat, and frantically picked up the big knife and continued to chop.

Moments later, a large hole three feet wide broke through the rock face. Zhao Hong was overjoyed, took off the fire fold, and bent over to drill over. He suddenly felt that his feet were smooth, as if he were walking on a stone path, and he forced his anxiety in his heart and cautiously looked around him.

He found himself in a very peculiar underground space, the space was not large, about ten zhang square, and the height was about more than one zhang high. If you look closely, it looks like a monk's cave.

There are more than a dozen of them in the stone chamber hall, such as all kinds of artificially carved stone tables, stone benches, and stone cabinets. There are also teapots, cups, etc. scattered on the stone table. The whole hall was clean and tidy, but there was nothing but the stone tools.

Zhao Hong looked up, his heart was pounding, hazy and not like the light of the sky, which was projecting from the top of his head to the entire stone room. It turned out that above this stone chamber, there were several huge pieces of crystal inlaid to make a skylight, which was about the size of a zhang, and the light was penetrated through these crystal windows.

He was secretly surprised in his heart, these few huge crystals must be extremely rare treasures in themselves. Such an ingenious construction site embedded into a skylight is really a big deal!

He looked through the crystal again, and as far as the eye could see, there was no end. Suddenly, a big fish with colorful patterns actually passed by the crystal, and he suddenly realized that the place where he was now was actually under the water, and the sound of water that he had heard all the way before was actually transmitted from the stone wall of this stone chamber.

The owner of this stone chamber should have spent a lot of effort to build this place, but I don't know where this person is now?

Just as he was amazed and sighed, he secretly exclaimed: "Oops, no! I have been digging hard, but now I have come to the bottom of the lake! Now there is no other way out of this stone chamber, how can I escape?"

He looked at the broken steel broadsword in his hand, and shook his head in a disappointed mood, I'm afraid this broken knife can't be used anymore.

He threw the steel broadsword in the corner, found a stone bench and sat down, and lazily lay on the bluestone table, his face full of frustration, did he really want to die here?

His eyes stared feebly at the crystal above his head, and after a night of hard digging, his strength had long since been exhausted, and his stomach was rumbling. A few fish swam leisurely past, and the feeling of seeing and not eating was really unpleasant.

If you can't get out of here, you won't be able to survive for long. When the time comes, I don't know if I will starve to death first, or die of thirst first?

He had heard that a mortal man could last ten days without food, but three or five days without water. In this way, I guess I will die of thirst first. If I didn't return overnight, would Uncle Si be in a hurry and look for me everywhere?

He immediately shook his head, according to Yi Si's attitude towards him, he definitely didn't care about himself. But he thought of the extraordinary concern that Yi Si felt every time he was sick or injured, and nodded again.

With a sound of "da", Zhao Hong, who was in a daze, was shocked. He followed the sound, but saw a drop of water from the bottom edge of the middle crystal.

The sound of dripping water was originally slight, but it was extremely silent in this stone room, which made Zhao Hong hear it very clearly.

Zhao Hong was overjoyed, approached to see, and found that the water droplets fell on the stone steps, forming a groove, which must have been made by dripping water through the stone for a long time. This stone step is obviously much darker than the other stone steps around, and it is estimated that it has been eroded by water seepage for a long time.

Thinking about this layer, Zhao Hong immediately took the stone cup from the nearby stone table, intending to use it to hold water. But who knew that the stone cup was held in his hand, but he didn't move. He was very curious in his heart, so with a little bit of strength, the stone cup remained immovable.

Could it be that these utensils were not really for human use, but ornaments, connected to the stone table?

Zhao Hong shook his head, and then tried the other stone cups on this table, as well as the stone pot, and the result was the same.

Instead of being discouraged, he went on to try another stone table, only to find that it was not at all the same. He didn't have time to think about it, so he picked up the stone pot on the table, walked to the dripping place, looked at the spot, and placed the stone pot firmly on the stone steps.

"Da"!

Sure enough, it didn't take long for another drop of water to fall, and it happened to fall into the stone pot.

Zhao Hong breathed a sigh of relief, as long as he could solve the drinking water problem, at least he would not worry about his life for three or five days.

He looked at the stone table beside him and remembered what had just happened. Curious, he tried the stone pots and cups on the other three stone tables one by one, and the result made a strange discovery.

There are a total of four sets of stone tables and stools in the stone room, arranged in four corners, each table is equipped with four stools, and a tea set is placed on each table. The other three tables are not abnormal, and the pots and cups can be picked up, except for the first table just now.

Moreover, each set of tea sets on the rest of the tables was a pot of four cups, with the spout facing outward, but the tea set on this table was a table of three cups, with one cup less in the inward-facing position, and the spout was facing inward.

Zhao Hong thought to himself, the owner of this stone room must have another deep meaning in this arrangement, maybe it will be related to whether he can leave here.

Thinking like this, Zhao Hong shook his spirits and carefully looked at the tea set on the table. He tried each pot again, but he still couldn't pull it up, and his heart began to wonder again.

Why is there one less stone cup here? He focused all his doubts on the empty space where one stone cup was missing, but no matter how he looked at it, he found nothing.

About an hour passed, Zhao Hong had long lost his previous excitement, lying on the stone table weakly, and his eyes began to be confused.

He had been on the front line of life and death because of following the man in gray before, but after escaping by luck, he was trapped in an underground cave, and he also experienced several hours of hard work digging rocks to open the way, and his nerves were tense to the extreme. Now he was already physically and mentally exhausted, so unconsciously, he slowly fell asleep.

......

The morning glow was blood-colored, and the heavens and the earth seemed to be shrouded in a hazy blood mist, and the air was filled with the smell of blood, and the valley still seemed to echo with shouts of killing, trumpets, and wails.

Inside and outside the city were like hills of corpses and bones, as if they had been slashed by a thousand knives, limbs shattered all over the ground, and torsos were shattered. The lucky ones who were left alive were tired and tired, but they still had to continue to clean up the battlefield, but they couldn't tell what was white bone and what was weapon, and they couldn't tell which were demon beast bodies and which were human flesh and blood.

The original magnificent pavilions and pavilions were all broken and ruined at this time, and they were scorched and black. Several large blackened pits, the edge of the pit wall was actually dissolved at high temperature, and there was a faint green smoke, and after a breeze blew, the smell of burnt paste wafted everywhere. There are many gray-black fly ashes mixed in the pit, flying all over the sky.

The Wonderful Shadow Daoist of Bolang Peak took the two disciples and slowly inspected the remnants of the battlefield, without saying a word, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. Jiang Zhenshan, the "Master Jiang" who asked Fafeng, also accompanied him, sighing as he walked.

"Miaoying, I still haven't figured out why the Demon Valley would suddenly withdraw its troops, otherwise it would ......" Jiang Fuzi opened his mouth to break the silence.

Miao Ying Dao smiled bitterly and did not reply immediately.

At that time, the city defense array was broken, tens of thousands of demon beasts poured into the fire-weary city, the good and evil sides had been short-handed, every street and alley was a tragic fierce battle, and human beings had been slaughtered nine times out of ten. And at this moment, the six-tailed demon fox suddenly ordered the troops to be withdrawn, which was really incomprehensible.

"This is a sudden, and inexplicable bloody battle, which inexplicably started and ended inexplicably. Miao Ying Dao said so, and I don't know if it was because of my emotion, or if I replied to Jiang Fuzi's question just now.

Jiang Fuzi looked at Mei Ying and Ye Zijin, took a step closer to the Miaoying Daoist, and asked, "Miaoying, this time the demon beasts slaughtered the city, not only the lives of the Fire Disgusting City were devastated, but even the losses of the disciples of our Five Elements Sect halls were quite heavy. I wonder what you're going to do next?"

Miaoying Daoist hesitated for a moment, and then said: "I have just sent the flying book back to Weiyu Palace, and I will inform you of the situation here, and I plan to return tomorrow." As for the rest of the matter, I have to go back and ask the deacon senior sister to get an idea. I don't know what Fa Feng is going to do?"

Jiang Fuzi smiled bitterly: "What else, naturally I will return to Zhaoyao Hall and tell the truth about the situation here." The vitality of the righteous path forces in the Fire-weary City has been greatly damaged, and we and the righteous path sect should renegotiate the deployment to prevent the demon beasts from committing crimes again. ”

The Miaoying Daoist nodded, stopped talking, and continued to move forward with his disciples.

"I just said that I could redeem my sister-in-law for one or two pieces of silver, and my sister-in-law temporarily agreed to sell herself to bury her father. But why are you unreasonable, why do you want ten taels in the blink of an eye?"

"you, just now, now is now, what is the truth? The official family is the reason, the master is the truth!"

"You bastard is so deceitful!

Not far away, there was a commotion.

Miaoying Daoist frowned, and saw a middle-aged man in a red robe and brocade in front of him holding a thick hemp rope in his hand, and more than a dozen girls were tied behind him one after another. Another ragged, yellow-skinned young man, about seventeen or eighteen years old, was about to fight with the man in the red robe.

The young man seemed to want to save one of the girls, it was his sister, although the young man wanted to fight hard, how could he not be the middle-aged opponent of the red robe at all, and was kicked away by the man in the red robe.

"Master, I know that person, who is the Great Butler Zhong of the City Lord's Mansion. Mei Ying said to the Miaoying Daoren, they had seen the Zhupao people in Baibaozhai before.

"Master, it's so hateful, in broad daylight, you actually kidnap people's girls, it's not as good as a pig and a dog!" Ye Zijin looked angry.

Miao Ying Daoren's face also changed immediately at this time, although cultivators rarely asked about mortal things, but when she encountered such a thing, how could she ignore it.

"Hey, it's interesting, it's interesting, it's the Shuimu Twin Spirit Root! Wonderful, wonderful! Haha......" Jiang Fuzi on the side suddenly became excited, and without waiting for the others to react, he took the lead and walked over.

Miaoying Daoren was stunned for a while, followed Jiang Fuzi's eyes, and immediately understood the meaning of his words, and couldn't help but glance at Jiang Fuzi fiercely.