Hearing Xiao Tian's shout, Yang Yan and Zhao Huxing glanced at each other, and walked towards the entrance of the cave without hesitation, but they still refused to believe Pang Xie's judgment in the end.

The two came to the edge of the cave, Yang paced back at Pang Xie, and motioned Pang Xie to kill with him, Pang Xie shook his head and insisted on his judgment, Yang Cheng showed a disappointed expression on his face, but he didn't say anything more, turned his head, and Zhao Huxing, Xiaotian, and the three of them jumped out of the stone cave and disappeared into the smoke.

Billowing smoke continued to pour into the cave, Li Dayong and Tian Qi choked and coughed, and couldn't help but walk in the direction of the cave entrance.

Pang Xie reached out and grabbed the two of them by the wrist and asked, "Where are you two going?"

"This place can't be stayed. Li Dayong said, but did not say where he was going.

"Brother Pang, where you say you're going, we'll go!" Tian Qi pinched his nose and said.

"Come with me!"

Pang Xie didn't wait for Li Dayong to make up his mind, turned around and dragged the two of them towards the depths of the cave.

The cave is deep and unfathomable, at the beginning tens of meters can still be distinguished by the light of the cave entrance, the road in front of it, after a few tens of meters, turn a few corners, the light dims a little bit, and finally becomes unable to reach out to the five fingers, and can no longer see anything.

Although the cave is dark, Pang Xie is not slow at all, he has cultivated to the realm of "metamorphosis", his physique has changed to non-human, his five senses are extremely keen, and he has gradually begun to have the ability to see things at night.

Li Dayong and Tian Qi could not help but suffer some hardships, the inside of the cave was tortuous, the road was wide and narrow, the widest place was more than ten meters wide, five or six meters high, which could accommodate two trucks to pass in parallel, the narrowest part was less than one meter wide, and the height was more than one meter, even Tian Qi had to bend down to pass.

These two people did not have Pang Xie's ability to see at night, and they followed behind Pang Xie in a daze, as if they were blind, and they bumped and bumped along the way, and they suffered some abrasions after not working hard.

......

The three of them ran for a while, and gradually lost the smell of smoke, Li Dayong came back to his senses, and suddenly said, "Wait, why did I forget, I obviously brought a flashlight!" Then he took out a flashlight from his pocket, pressed the button lightly, and there was a soft "click", and the orange light illuminated the road ahead.

The lights turned on, and Pang Xie also stopped, he was walking too quickly just now, he didn't feel anything yet, and Li Dayong and Tian Qi also had to take a breath.

"No, what's going on..."Using the light of the flashlight to see the surrounding situation clearly, Li Dayong's face suddenly darkened.

I saw that in front of the three people, there were actually three passages, which led to three different directions, and behind the three people, there were also two passages, and they couldn't tell where they came from just now.

There are five roads before and after, and for a while, Li Dayong didn't know where to go.

"What's wrong?" Tian Qi hadn't noticed the problem yet.

"We just walked in the dark, I always thought that there was only one road, straight ahead, if there is a dead end in front, we can still turn back, I didn't expect that there are so many forks here, in case you can't get out, you can't even find a way out. Li Dayong looked a little nervous.

"Ah, yes!" Tian Qi reacted at this time, looking at the darkness around him, and his heart was a little hairy.

"Instructor Li is too careful, although there are many passages here, but the passages that can be connected to the outside world are extremely limited, you feel it carefully, you can feel the subtle air flow movement, follow the air flow forward, don't worry about not finding the exit, besides, even if you can't find it forward, you can go back against the direction of the air flow, and you can also find the hole entrance. ”

"Oh?"

After Li Dayong listened, he stretched out his hand to feel the flow of the air flow in several passages, and sure enough, he felt the flow of the air flow, but the movement of this air flow was extremely subtle, and it needed to be felt carefully, and he couldn't feel it if he was slightly distracted.

"Rest assured, aren't you?" said Ponche with a smile.

Li Dayong nodded and didn't say anything more, Tian Qi's eyes lit up, and he couldn't help asking: "Brother Pang, did you ever be a captain of Touching Jin before, or a mountain mover?"

“......”

"Since there's no doubt, let's turn off the flashlight, shall we?" said Pouchie.

"Closed?" Li Dayong frowned.

"Do you have to turn it off?" Tian Qi's face was full of bitterness, just now, he hit the wall four or five times in a row, and his nose was blue and his face was swollen, plus he walked in the dark, and the psychological pressure was too great, so he really didn't want to turn off the flashlight.

Pang Xie touched the stone wall with his hand, spread it out in front of the flashlight source, only to see that there were obviously many water stains on the edge of the palm, and explained: "This place is hotter than outside, the air is very humid, very suitable for biological reproduction, if there are any wild beasts, I will not be surprised at all, let's turn on the lights, it is easy to attract these beasts." ”

"Besides, if a wild beast comes, wouldn't it be easier to spot it with the lights on?" Li Dayong was a little puzzled.

Pang Xie smiled, but didn't explain.

After a moment, Li Dayong shook his head, turned off the flashlight, and chose to believe Pang Xie.

......

After turning off the flashlight, the three of them continued to move forward, with more and more forks in the road ahead, and it became more and more difficult to judge the direction of the air flow, and the speed of travel inevitably slowed down.

After walking for more than an hour, Pang Xie's brows furrowed, he felt that although the direction was not wrong, the terrain was getting lower and lower, and if he continued like this, he didn't know when he would be able to get out of here.

Rounding an intersection, the three of them took a few more steps forward, and Pang Xie suddenly stopped, sniffed the humid air lightly, and stood still.

"What's wrong?" Tian Qi hurriedly asked.

The sound wave came from afar, and when it met the stone walls on all sides, it was reflected back, and his ears buzzed, and his eardrums hurt a little.

"There's a bit of a problem with this place. Ponsie said.

"Huh?" Li Dayong hurriedly turned on the flashlight.

Under the orange light, an extremely large underground grotto appeared in front of him.

The grotto is oval in shape, there are almost two or three hundred meters long before and after, the faint light can hardly illuminate the head, there are more than 20 meters high up and down, and the stone barbs hang down, as if they are stalactites, as if they are going to fall down at any time, it is chilling to look at, and the left and right are almost hundreds of meters wide.

There are a lot of passages that can be passed around the grotto, a cursory glance, you can almost count more than ten passages, there are a lot of huge stones piled up on the ground, one in the east, one in the west, all of them are rocks that are more than one person high, and only a vacant land in the middle is relatively flat.

"It's not easy to judge the direction of this place!" Li Dayong was a little worried.

The grotto is too large and has stones blocking it, which will inevitably change the direction of the air flow, and it is not easy to find the right passage.

"It's not all. Ponsie said.

"What else is the problem?" Tian Qi asked.

Pang Xie didn't answer immediately, and after a moment of silence, he said: "That's it, after walking for so long, you should be tired, first find a place to rest, eat something, I'll walk around." ”

"Aren't you going to eat?"

"I'm not hungry yet. ”

Li Dayong and Tian Qi found a flat place, put down their luggage, lit candles, and began to eat, neither of them had much to eat at this meal, and they didn't know how long they would have to walk here, so it was better to leave more food.

Pang Xie walked alone in the grotto, and the sound of gentle footsteps was far and near, surrounding the ears of Li Dayong and Tian Qi, which also made the two of them feel a lot more at ease.

......

About half an hour later, Ponsie walked back, and by the faint light of the candle could see that he was holding several bowl-sized black flakes in his hands, with a strange expression on his face.

"Brother Pang, what is this?" Tian Qi asked.

Pang Xie didn't speak, handed over the thin slice in his hand, and gave Li Dayong and Tian Qi one piece each.

Tian Qi took the thin slice and placed it next to the candle, observing by the candlelight, the black flake showed an irregular circle, slightly rounded on one side, slightly angular, and there were traces of circles on the flake, like the annual rings of a tree.

"This thing is a fossil, isn't it? Shells? Nautilus? Well, it seems that this thing is indeed true, and there are even fossils in the Qinling Mountains!" Tian Qi said with emotion.

Ponsie ignored him.

Li Dayong looked at it again and again for a while, his face became more and more ugly, and he asked tentatively: "Could it be that this is.... How is that possible?

As he spoke, he stretched out his hands and gestured in the shape of a long snake in the air.

Ponche nodded.

"How is that possible!" Li Dayong shouted.

Pang Xie pinched up a thin slice and broke it with both hands, and the flake suddenly bent up from the middle, and then loosened, and the flake suddenly bounced up and returned to its original shape.

Seeing this scene, Li Dayong's face was as black as ink.

"Brother Pang, Instructor Li, what is this?" Tian Qi still didn't understand.

"To have this elasticity, apparently it came from some kind of creature, and if you guessed correctly, it should be the scales of a snake, or a python. Ponsie said.

"Scales?" Tian Qi gestured with his hand and shouted in a lost voice: "The scales are so big, how big is this snake!"

The scales on the body of an ordinary snake are only a few millimeters in diameter, even if it is a python more than ten meters long, the scales on the body are only one or two centimeters, how can there be scales the size of a bowl, if it is according to this ratio, then this snake is not a hundred and ten meters long?

Pang Xie was silent, gently fiddling with the scales on his hands, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing that Pang Xie didn't speak, Li Dayong pondered for a moment and took the initiative to speak. "Xiao Pang, when I was at the entrance of the cave just now, you heard what Zhao Huxing said, since this is the case, I won't hide it from you, I grew up in the Daomen since I was a child, and I belong to the Quanzhen Dao lineage of Zhongnan Mountain, and later joined the army under the arrangement of the division, Zhao Huxing is a subordinate of the Dragon Palace, and this time the Dragon Palace also sent him to the training camp, of course, he has betrayed the Dragon Palace now, but the Dragon Palace may not know about it yet. ”

"I said that Tian Qi would definitely be surprised, but you shouldn't, your ability is definitely not taught by ordinary people, your master is probably also a fellow Taoist, and he should also give you the passage gate and the Dragon Palace. ”

Pang Xie nodded slightly, naturally no one had told him this, but eight hundred years ago, the Dragon Palace and Daomen were far less secret than they are today, even ordinary people knew a lot, and no one needed to talk about it at all.

"Because of this, I have always believed that the mysteries of the world are infinite and can be measured by ordinary people, just like the snakes we encounter today. You said that this scale came off some kind of creature, I believe, but whether this creature is a snake or not, we have to think about it carefully, find a way to deal with it, and deal with it in case we encounter it. ”

"Maybe it's a fish?" Tian Qi interjected.

Li Dayong was dumbfounded.

Pang Xie thought for a while and said: "Instructor Li, Xiao Qi, this place is called the Black Dragon Valley, there has always been a legend of the python becoming a sperm, and there is also the Black Dragon Zhenjun Temple at the mouth of the valley, which cannot be faked." ”

"In my opinion, there must be something strange in this place, maybe there is some kind of unknown life, but after all, after so many years, even if there is anything weird, after the long river of history, there may not be anything left, as long as we are careful, it will not be a problem. ”

Hundreds of years ago, the vitality of heaven and earth declined, countless cultivators could not advance an inch, and disappeared into the red dust, only he relied on the essence of the pearl and barely survived until now.

Even if there was something strange here, as long as there was no strange fate, it was really unlikely that it would be able to survive until now.

"You have a point. Li Dayong said.

Tian Qi also nodded, in just one day, he encountered several strange things in a row, and he was already strange.

The two agreed with Pang Xie's statement, but for some reason, looking at these snake scales, they felt heavy in their hearts.

"Poof"!

Pang Xie suddenly lowered his head, blew out the candles on the ground, and whispered, "Someone!"

The two of them hurriedly held their breath, and after a few minutes, just when Tian Qi was feeling impatient, a sound of hurried footsteps came from the passage where the three of them had just come.