(9) Longshan Pi Zijing

After everyone arrived, Xiao Qingfeng told everyone in sign language not to make any moves. Then, after checking their respective equipment and weapons, he said in code: "This matter, since we have encountered it, we must choose to face it." What kind of terrifying characters are there, we all have to go in, at least to open up the mystery of today's cliff man. But I suspect that there must be a great danger here, so everyone must follow closely and be ready to respond and take care of them at all times. Just now, I specially undertook Xuan Gong and looked inside, this one looks very ordinary, and the inside is actually very deep, and it is narrow and tortuous, and the strange rocks are craggy. Therefore, I decided: Brother Wolf, Ah Turtle, and Tian Remnant will take the lead, and I will be in the center with Jingxin, Ah Lang, and Doll, and Xiao Maitreya and Second Brother will break off. Everyone rushes in, but leaves a certain buffer space between each other in case of emergency. Saying this, he looked at the Mengshan Turtle, the Little Daoist, the Lone Wolf, and the Dumb Man, and they all nodded solemnly, they understood what Xiao Qingfeng meant, and they must protect and take care of the others.

Everything is ready, everyone is about to enter the rift. Suddenly, the lone wolf whispered word by word with a pale face: "No bottom-hole, -skin-seed-essence!" When the other eight people heard this, they were immediately shocked and stopped moving. Seeing this, Xiao Qingfeng had no choice but to calmly command everyone, and temporarily retreated quickly towards a boulder more than thirty meters away next to the crack. Once there, the lone wolf whispered a local legend.

Longshan, winding and undulating, stretches for more than ten kilometers, and has nine large and small hills. Because it looks like a dragon as a whole, it is called Ryusan. Although there are no tall and steep mountains and dense and pristine deep forests here, there is a magical legend in this place for more than a thousand years - the bottomless pit of skin spirits.

According to legend, there is a hidden bottomless pit in Yongsan, and it is said that this hole has no end, and there are rumors that it can lead from there all the way to the East China Sea. There is a group of skin spirits with high mana living in the cave, and it is said that the leader is an old skin spirit with white hair and white beard who has attained Taoism for thousands of years. Although people have never really found this legendary bottomless pit, the story of the leather spirit has been passed down to this day. Among the nine of them, the lone wolf, the mute, Xiao Qingfeng, and Jingxin were all told a lot of stories about the bottomless pit of Longshan by the old people in the neighborhood when they were young. Even the laughing Maitreya, the Mengshan turtle, the little Taoist priest, the prodigal son and the doll have all heard the lone wolf talk about it. Those stories are told vividly by the old people, as if they happened to be there at the scene, as for the authenticity of the story, there is no way to verify, but there are indeed many old people who say that they have really encountered it.

Legend has it that Fur is an animal between a fox, a badger and a weasel, a mysterious animal whose name is hard to see, and its bizarre legend can be found all over the country. Some people describe that the skin is not large, and it is familiar with the size of the local dog in the countryside today, but there has been no real video data. It is said that the skins have a long lifespan and like to live in some deep caves in the mountains and hills, and they especially like to go to the top of the mountain in the quiet hours of the evening and look up at the bright moon in the form of a human. Because they absorb the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon all year round, they slowly have a certain spirituality over the years, and after hundreds of thousands of years of hard work, it is said that they can cultivate the Tao and turn into a human form, which is called the skin essence or skin fairy.

After cultivating and turning into a human form, Pi Zijing has a docile temperament, and often haunts the barren mountains and wilderness at night or at night. They like to play with the world, but generally do not enter nearby villages to disturb people's normal life and harm ordinary people. Sometimes, when they are happy, they will learn from the ancient thieves who punished corrupt officials and bullies and helped the poor people.

It is said that the leather spirit also likes to take on the appearance of old grandfathers and grandmothers, quietly following behind those children who are alone in the wild, and learning children to walk. Sometimes he would call the boy affectionately and ask with a smile: "Child, do you think I look handsome?" If the child turns around and says, "You are so handsome", then he will be very happy to leave a pile of pastries for the child, and then go away a little further away into a puff of green smoke. And the boy was in good health for at least the next two or three years, and there was not even a single minor problem, which is said to be the reason for eating his pastries.

Therefore, according to legend, there is such a saying, that is, "a word of a boy is better than hundreds of years of cultivation". But if the boy ignores it, it will continue to ask questions. It doesn't matter if the boy really ignores him, as long as he meets someone else, he will naturally disappear and leave. But if the boy scolds it or says, "You're so ugly," or sees its hidden tail and says, "Why do you still have a tail," then it will cry out in frustration. It is said that as long as the boy is not happy to take care of it or can see its true body, it proves that his cultivation has not yet reached home, and he has to go back to penance. But they won't harm that boy, because if they harm the boy, it will destroy thousands of years of cultivation, and sometimes they will be struck by lightning and scattered forever.

Therefore, in the vicinity of Longshan, there has been such a rule since ancient times. Even after the sun sets, walking alone in the wilderness, remember not to look back and not to talk nonsense. The older generation said that there was a taboo. Because you may be able to damage this elf's thousand-year-old cultivation with a casual word, you mistake the elves' cultivation and finally have to pay it back with your own yang life, and in addition, you will be permanently resented by the elves who have lost their thousand-year cultivation.

In addition, the skin spirit is also the most effective elf near Longshan since ancient times, and it turns out that the nearby people have the custom of worshiping the skin fairy family. Pi Zijing has a great feature, that is, he knows how to repay a promise. As long as others are kind to it, it will repay it forever, and it will never deceive anyone who has promised it. But at the same time, they also have a big drawback, that is, they are difficult, once someone violates its taboo, then it will make you live without death, and you will not be at peace for the rest of your life. The end is not to make you die immediately, but to make you crazy for half your life, let you suffer and torture, and die little by little. Especially against those who commit great treachery and evil, the punishment methods have become even more severe.

So when the lone wolf said the words "bottomless pit skin", everyone was so shocked. In the vicinity of Longshan, according to legend, no one dared to provoke the bottomless pit of leather essence, because the old people had told too many stories about the difficult leather essence. Until now, on the sunny slope of the hill where the old eagle stone cliff is located, there is a thousand-year-old cypress tree, and there is a big stone under the tree. Every year on major festivals, there are nearby villagers and pilgrims who come from outside to kowtow here. When children in the neighborhood usually go up the mountain, as long as they pass there, adults will ask them to kowtow there. In the past two years, the village has also repaired the thousand-year-old cypress tree and put a large incense burner made of local mountain stones, and the incense here is obviously much more prosperous.

After the lone wolf finished speaking, he really took everyone to the thousand-year-old cypress tree in front of the mountain and kowtowed, not to mention that there was really a lot of unburned incense in the big stone incense burner. Although everyone has always been a little unconcerned about these elves and ghosts, they still sincerely kowtowed one by one, which can be regarded as a spiritual comfort for everyone to enter the mysterious bottomless pit. After kowtowing, the group returned to the vicinity of the rift. After some discussion, they still decided to go in and find out, because this matter is too bizarre and everyone must find out.

In addition, according to the legend, since you have encountered these leather spirits, even if you want to hide, you can't go over, and everyone can only meet them head-on. Besides, everyone also has an unfathomable Xuan Gong Xiao Qingfeng, Mengshan Turtle, and Little Taoist Priest, two pyloric hard hands, even if there are really any demons and monsters, they may not be able to scare everyone. It's just that now that you know that this may be the legendary bottomless pit, then everyone must prepare well, at least be prepared.

In this way, the original formation remains the same, but everyone takes their own weapons in advance, just in case. The little Taoist priest sacrificed his unique weapon, the Pure Yang Mixed Yuan Banner, and took the lead in front. The little Taoist's Pure Yang Mixed Yuan Banner is a life-saving weapon that his master solemnly left to him before his death, and it is also a Qimen weapon handed down from the ghost valley pylorus. Not only is it made of ancient Xuantie, but once it is unleashed, it can emit a fierce Tiangang Qi, and it is extremely powerful in attack and defense. In addition, the pure Yang Mixed Yuan Bead on its top can not only sense potential dangers, but also emit random light in the dark. Of course, this treasure flag has its own spirituality, and now only the little Taoist priest himself can use it as he pleases, because it requires his unique inner family method to sacrifice this ancient treasure.

At the same time, Mengshan Turtle also sacrificed his unique magic weapon, which is the back of the seven-star turtle that has been integrated with him since he was a child. His seven-star turtle back is also a Qimen weapon of the Ghost Valley Pyloric Gate, its power is that it can break those powerful prohibitions, and it is invulnerable, especially it can also restrain those evil sects that are not authentic Xuanmen. Once the Mengshan Turtle sacrifices his seven-star turtle back, it will be difficult for external forces to hurt him, unless he encounters the top master of the Xuanmen Sect.

At this time, Xiao Qingfeng also took out his own unique gadget, a black and inconspicuous tiger support. According to Xiao Qingfeng's own account, his tiger brace also has a great origin, and according to legend, it turned out to be a peerless tiger brace made by Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, with meteorites. Later, I don't know how after the medicine king drove the crane to the west, he fell into the rivers and lakes and was obtained by a strange person. He added a fine chain of pure gold that was more than a foot long, and treated the outer edge of the tiger brace into the shape of a Qiankun circle, transforming it into a very powerful Qimen weapon. Moreover, the transformed tiger brace not only sharpens iron like clay, but also breaks the spirit of the master of the inner family, and is an extremely powerful internal weapon. In the end, it was also a coincidence, and it was inadvertently picked up by Xiao Qingfeng in the antique market. Originally, Xiao Qingfeng was a peerless Xuanmen authentic kung fu, and he couldn't look down on any weapon at all, but he only loved this peerless tiger brace and became his beloved portable blade.

Of course, the true origin of this peerless tiger brace is by no means so simple, it's just that Xiao Qingfeng deliberately talked about it in such generalities, and when there is a more detailed explanation in the later text, I won't be verbose here.

In addition, the lone wolf and the mute are both good at foreign kung fu and never use weapons. Jingxin has always been the object of everyone's protection, and there are no weapons at all, of course, now Xiao Qingfeng already knows that she is deeply hidden. In everyone's eyes, the treatment of Laughing Maitreya in the Nine Immortals is similar to meditation, and he is basically the object of everyone's protection. I usually like to use a bow and crossbow, and I often have a well-made chain bow and crossbow on my body, which is not small. In addition to being able to deal with three or two ordinary gangsters, the doll's other skills are first-aid care, and she also has a special ability that is superb ventriloquism, and she has no weapons. Of these people, only the prodigal son still has a decent manganese steel machete, but it is only used as a tool when building bridges in the open forest and water outdoors, and it has no real use in real master duels.

Everything was ready, and the little Taoist priest took the lead in getting in. Don't look at the little Taoist priest who is usually seriously hunched and bad at walking, but when he takes action, it is like a different person. Although the hunchback is not straight, it moves quickly and moves quickly. In this narrow and tortuous crack, he seemed to be extremely flexible, but the highly burly mute and the laughing Maitreya were a little difficult. In some places, it is almost hard to squeeze in, in some places you have to clean up the abrupt rocks first, and in other places, you have to cut down some messy bushes.