Ah Li left the old ancestor's cave mansion with mixed feelings, the strange behavior of the old ancestor just now made her worried, although in the end the old ancestor returned to normal, but Ah Li knew that the situation of the old ancestor was definitely not as good as she said.

Ah Li wanted to ask for the opinion of Tianhuo just now, but the old ancestor was too close, and Ah Li didn't dare to act rashly, in case the old ancestor noticed Tianhuo, it was estimated that both of them would be in danger.

And Tianhuo was even more frightened and didn't dare to make any movement, after the fox ancestor came over just now, Ah Li basically lowered her head, she couldn't see the fox ancestor's expression.

But what Tianhuo saw from the canopy made him shudder, and in the short time of conversation between Fox Ancestor and Ah Li, Tianhuo saw Fox Ancestor's eyes switch from red to white at least four times.

Every time it turns white, his expression will become gentle and peaceful, with love and recognition for Ah Li;

Every time it turns red, his expression will become hideous and tyrannical, and he has the urge to kill Ah Li directly;

Tianhuo couldn't explain why the fox ancestor had such a big emotional switch, but every time the fox ancestor's eye color switched, Tianhuo had a feeling that he had turned around from the ghost gate.

In the end, the gentle fox ancestor seemed to have the upper hand, and after explaining the errand, he was very anxious to send Ah Li away, as if he didn't want Ah Li to stay in the cave for a moment longer.

Tianhuo could feel that the fox ancestor himself was also worried about something, and he didn't want Ah Li to stay in the cave for too long, for fear of causing other changes.

Ah Li walked out of the ancestral cave, looked back with a complicated expression, and called Tianhuo in his heart.

Tianhuo whispered, "It's not appropriate to stay here for a long time, let's go back to your cave first." "Then there was no sound.

Ah Li also knew that this place was not safe, and hurriedly ran to the cave of the orphanage camp.

When Ah Li's figure disappeared from the cave, the old ancestor seemed to be a little tired, leaning on the big chair and closing his eyes to recuperate, and the attendant Liangzi did not dare to disturb the old ancestor to rest, just waited quietly on the side.

Soon the old ancestor opened, her eyes became blood-red again, she looked around slightly, a strange smile appeared at the corner of her mouth, and a somewhat cold voice came out: "Liangzi, that little fox went back?"

The attendant Liangzi hurriedly replied: "Tell the ancestor, you just asked her to go back on an errand, and she went back." ”

The lady's eyes flashed red, and she said coldly: "Oh, what errand? I've been a little tired of practicing lately, and I always like to forget things." ”

Liangzi had some doubts in his eyes, but he didn't dare to ask, remembering that the old ancestor said just now that he was very reliable and would never tell that thing, was this testing himself?

Ryoko said in an astringent voice: "Ancestor, don't worry, Ryoko is your most loyal attendant, absolutely tight-lipped as a bottle, I swear I will never tell the fourth person about what happened just now!"

"Oh?" the lady scolded in her heart, good means, and even took precautions!

The noble lady coughed, eased her embarrassment and said, "Liangzi, you are really obedient, I also have an errand for you now, can you handle it?"

As soon as Liangzi heard that he also had an errand, he immediately became happy, in fact, when the old ancestor handed over the errand of tracking down Elder Erni's disappearance to Ah Li, Liangzi was a little jealous.

Since everyone is in the quenching period, why can a Ah Li, who has just returned to the clan, take on such an important task, he is the personal attendant of the ancestor but has not been entrusted with a heavy task, if you want to say that he is loyal to the ancestor and the clan, Liangzi is no worse than that Ah Li.

Now it seems that the ancestors still trust themselves.

Liangzi immediately raised his head and said to the old ancestor: "Old ancestor, despite your orders, Liangzi will go to the soup and fight the fire, and he will not give up." Unknowingly, Ryoko borrowed Ah Li's lines.

The noble lady nodded with great satisfaction and said, "From now on, you give me twelve hours to keep an eye on Ah Li to see what she has done.

Liangzi's eyes lit up, and sure enough, the ancestor still trusted him the most, and let Ah Li do the drudgery, and he was only responsible for monitoring Ah Li!

The noble lady watched Ryoko out of the cave, sat for a while, and suddenly let out a strange laugh, muttering to herself: "It's all come to this point, you still have to make small moves, I think you can hold on for how long?"

After laughing maniacally, the lady fell limply on the gold-lacquered chair and began to convulse.

After a long time, the old ancestor woke up slowly, his expression was extremely aggrieved, the blood red in his eyes receded again, the old ancestor struggled to sit up, put his hand on his forehead and whispered: "My coma is getting higher and higher, no, I have to break through quickly, otherwise I don't know what will go wrong!"

The old ancestor got up with difficulty, picked up the old ginseng on the side, walked into the back hall, turned into the bedroom, and triggered a mechanism on the embroidery bed, and a small dark passage appeared on the ground behind the embroidery bed, and the deep stone steps went straight to the ground.

The old ancestor walked directly down the stone platform, and when her figure disappeared at the entrance of the cave, the secret passage closed automatically, and the ground returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.

Ah Li hurried back to his cave and instructed a few of the little ones in the orphanage camp to help her take care of the portal, and no one could enter without notice.

When Ah Li returned to his cave, the first thing he did was to call Tianhuo, but after calling several times, Tianhuo did not respond.

Ah Li knew that Tianhuo was unhappy and was in a mood, so he had to condense his soul and appear directly on the stone platform.

Tianhuo was lying on the stone platform with his legs bent, putting his two wrists on top of his head, looking at the sky in a daze.

Ah Li walked to the light curtain, patted the light curtain lightly and said, "Tianhuo, are you angry?"

Tianhuo shook his head: "I'm not angry, I'm thinking about how to get out of here quickly, it's too dangerous to follow you!" I thought you were just going home, but I didn't expect the fox fairy forest to be calm on the surface, and there were dark waves surging in secret, I was really worried that you would be swept in, and I am afraid that it would be a catastrophe when the time comes!"

Ah Li didn't expect Tianhuo to say so seriously, and asked in surprise: "Tianhuo, don't you be alarmist, how can it be so dangerous? Didn't I just promise the old ancestor to secretly investigate the disappearance of Elder Erni? At most, I can't find out the result, but I won't die as you said, right?"

Tianhuo Huo Ran did it, looked at Ah Li and said: "You are a little demon cultivator in the bone quenching period, you have been away from the clan for ten years, today is the first day you return to the clan to accept such a task, do you think that the ancestor values your sense of justice and responsibility?

Ah Li was stunned by the stormy scolding of Tianhuo, "you, you" for a long time, and couldn't say a word to refute it.

Tianhuo stalked his neck and said: "What's wrong with me? You have no strength and no team, and you are involved in the disappearance of a demon pill elder, I think you are an old birthday star eating arsenic--you are impatient!"

You were fooled by the fox ancestor's two words, and you got your blood boiling and carried away, do you know how risky it is to investigate this matter? The murderer who can kill Erni is at least a master of the demon pill period, you go to investigate, it is nothing more than adding another life!

Dani is such a rude person, she knows how to pretend to be stupid in this matter, you are facing the difficulties, I don't scold you, do you still want to encourage you and applaud you?"

In fact, Ah Li didn't want to take on this secret investigation task, so she put forward so many conditions, but in the end she was forced to agree, and from the moment she agreed, she regretted it in her heart.

Now that she is reprimanded by Tianhuo like this, Ah Li feels very aggrieved in her heart, but what Tianhuo said is the truth, and she has no way to refute it, so she can only cry silently.

Tianhuo saw Ah Li starting to cry, and he also felt that what he said just now was a bit excessive, so he softened his tone and said, "Ah Li, don't cry, I don't blame you." Compared with secretly investigating Erni's disappearance, I am more worried about the person of the fox ancestor, I have a feeling that she is too dangerous, I am very worried about your safety, or the safety of the two of us!"

Ah Li raised his teary eyes and asked, "Are you worried that the old ancestor will finally throw the blame on me and sacrifice me to maintain the stability of the clan?"

Tianhuo shook his head and said with some hesitation: "Not all, of course, this possibility is not ruled out." What I'm really worried about is the unstable mental state of the fox ancestor, and I'm worried that she has gone mad!

My master said that the monk is so terrible when she goes mad that you can't imagine what she will do!

Ah Li said in horror: "Impossible! The old ancestor will definitely not be like that, she was just a little uncomfortable just now, but after recovering, she is still so gentle and kind, I don't believe she will become like that!"

Tianhuo looked into Ah Li's eyes and said, "That's because you couldn't see the expression and movements of the old ancestor just now!" Tianhuo told Ah Li in detail what he had just seen in the canopy.

In the end, Tianhuo concluded: "I'm worried that the old ancestor has gone mad, because the pressure of promotion is too great, she was invaded by the demons, but she is unwilling to fail, so she has a different self in her heart!"

One ancestor is gentle and fraternal, and the other ancestor is tyrannical and killing, both of which are herself. If she hadn't simulated another self, she might have become completely crazy long ago. ”

It was the first time for Ah Li to hear such an unbelievable thing, so he swallowed his saliva with difficulty and said, "Tianhuo, you are all unwarranted speculation. If this is really the case as you said, then why did the old ancestor ask me to go and find out the whereabouts of Elder Erni?"

Tianhuo turned his head to look at the unchanged Tianmu and said, "Then there is another possibility, that is, between the two ancestors, they don't know what the other party has done?"

Although Ah Li was still a little unconvinced, Tianhuo's analysis sounded almost impeccable.

Ali hung his head and said, "Tianhuo, then do I still check the matter of Elder Erni's disappearance?"

Tianhuo's eyes flashed with excitement and said, "There are still ten days left in the agreed time with the tanuki Daxian, and we must leave here after ten days." But these ten days, we can't waste them either!

The above conclusions are all my deductions, not necessarily correct, but just a possibility, and more evidence is needed to prove these deductions. There is only one truth, and we need to uncover the mystery ourselves!"

Liangzi never questioned the words of the old ancestor, and the old ancestor arranged for him to keep an eye on Ah Li, and he would naturally follow Ah Li sleeplessly until he found out what Ah Li was doing wrong.

But when Ryoko followed Ah Li to the cave of the orphanage camp, he was a little troubled.

Liangzi is the third generation of the ancestral lineage, Sanni's own nephew, an absolute elite child, who has lived in the best cave in the shallow hill since he was a child, and has never set foot in the orphanage camp, and he doesn't even know anyone in the orphanage camp, because he has always thought that these orphaned wild foxes are untouchables and are not worthy of Young Master Liang.

Today to invite Ah Li, it is the first time in his life to enter the orphan camp, here is cold, damp, shabby, dirty, so that he does not want to stay in the breath of time longer, he turned around at the door and came out, casually caught an orphan fox Xiu in and called Ah Li out, and then went to the ancestral cave.

But how can you stare at the cave where Ah Li doesn't enter the orphan camp? I used to invite Ah Li to enter the cave on the order of my ancestors, but now what reason do I have to find to enter?

Ryoko couldn't think of a good excuse for a while, he was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, he was usually used to following orders, and now let him take the initiative to think, it is indeed a bit difficult for a strong man.

Although the sun of Shinshi was not as strong as at noon, Ryoko had been roasting in the sun for a long time, and coupled with the overuse of her brain, drops of sweat the size of beans dripped down her forehead.

Just when Ryoko felt desperate and was about to leave first, and then find other good solutions, 159 returned to the orphanage camp after the morning sentry, and saw Ryoko wandering at the entrance of the orphanage camp.

A descendant like Liangzi, and a personal attendant of the ancestor, rarely comes to a place like the orphanage camp, 159 felt that this was a good opportunity to meet the eldest young master, and hurriedly ran two steps, walked to Liangzi, and respectfully bowed his head to say hello:

"What kind of good wind is it today, I brought Young Master Liang here, and the little one hundred and fifty-nine has asked you to say goodbye! Could it be that the old ancestor saw Sister Ah Li today and remembered to care about our orphanage camp?"

Speaking of which, 159's eyes lit up, maybe Sister Ah Li loves everyone so much, and it is not impossible to take the opportunity of today's treasure offering to seek some welfare for the orphan camp.

In fact, this is a good wish in 159's heart, but when Liangzi heard this, his eyes lit up, and he felt that his head was like Huang Zhongdalu: "Oh, why didn't I think of this excuse just now?"

Liangzi immediately put on a business posture and said to the forging period fox cultivator in front of him who he didn't know: "Are you 159? Have you just come back from the sentry? I have been ordered by the old ancestor to inspect the overall situation of the orphanage camp and see if there is anything that can be improved?"

1591 listened to the joy of joy, sure enough, as he thought, then he had to serve this master well, as long as he went back and reported the actual situation of the orphanage camp to the ancestors, then the life of these younger brothers and sisters would be better.

159 said in a voice similar to flattery: "Young Master Liang, that's really hard for you, you haven't been to the orphan camp yet, have you? Let you come to our place in person, I really wronged you, the small one will lead the way, the entrance of the cave is relatively humid, you be careful not to slip." ”

Ryoko followed 159 to the cave, and the cold, damp, and stench that he experienced more than an hour ago hit his face, and Ryoko almost turned around and went out, but thinking of the sacred mission given to him by his ancestors, he controlled his legs again and continued to move forward.

After walking through nearly ten zhang of wet, crooked, and narrow corridors, I finally came to the cave where the orphan camp was located, and the entire cave was only about seven or eight zhang of space, and there were more than forty orphan fox cultivators in it.

There are also four self-carved small caves in the big cave, each only six or seven feet in size, and they are all inhabited by fox cultivators who serve as errands in the fox fairy forest or respected fox cultivators like Ah Li.

There are so many foxes living in such a small space, how can the taste in the cave be good, plus this is located in the belly of the mountain, it is very humid, and there is no sunlight all year round, and the living environment is very poor.

Ryoko originally just planned to come in to see what Ah Li was doing in the cave, but he didn't expect to see that the living environment of the orphanage camp was so poor after coming in, and as the leader of the future third generation of the fox fairy forest, Ryoko was in a very bad mood.

Ryoko frowned and asked, "Have you always been in such an environment here?"

159 hurriedly replied: "Tell Young Master Liang, the environment of the orphanage camp has always been like this, and now it has entered September, the rainy season has passed, and if you come in summer, it will be even more humid and sultry here."

In fact, spring, summer and autumn are quite good, but in winter, the cave is too cold and damp, and many younger brothers and sisters in the wisdom period will get sick. ”

Ryoko blushes when she thinks of her sunny, warm, dry abode.

Ryoko said angrily, "Didn't you give the elders a report that the environment here is too bad?"

159 said aggrievedly: "Every senior brother and sister who went out of the orphan camp and was promoted to the bone quenching stage has reported this matter to the elders, but the elders said that now the population of the Fox Immortal Forest is increasing, and they will not be able to open up a suitable cave for a while.

The elders also said that the Fox Immortal Forest would not accept new orphans in the future, and we were the last group of orphans, so let's overcome them, so we have been overcoming them for hundreds of years.

Forty years ago, Elder Dani personally came here and encouraged us to work hard to cultivate, and as long as we were promoted to the bone quenching stage, we could move out of here. ”

Liangzi sniffed the thin aura in the air, and scolded angrily in his heart: "With the thin aura here, how can it be possible to cultivate to the bone quenching stage!"

At this time, 159 shouted: "You lazy bastards, hurry up, don't you see Young Master Liangzi coming to visit us? Come and say hello!"

The orphan fox cultivators who were huddled together and lying on the ground immediately jumped up, surrounded Liangzi in the middle and said hello, and the young fox cultivator asked Liangzi if the ancestor had sent him.

Seeing the eager eyes of the little fox cultivators, Liangzi felt guilty in his heart, so he had to lie: "Brothers and sisters, I am from the Old Ancestor Sect to visit you, and the Old Ancestor has recently cultivated to a critical period, so I can't come to see you in person."

But she still cares about you all the time, let me bring greetings to you, and let me see if there is anything I can do to help you?"

All the orphan fox cultivators were overjoyed to hear that the old ancestor cared so much about everyone, and soon they elected a representative to speak.

This male fox cultivator who forged the eighth stage of his body walked up to Liangzi tremblingly and said, "Young Master Liangzi, knowing that the old ancestor is still paying attention to us, we are very happy and content!"

The tribe takes us in, it is the greatest kindness, we don't have any requirements, we just hope that the ancestors will become a golden pill as soon as possible, every fox cultivator in the orphanage camp is looking forward to it day and night, and always pray for her old man's blessing!"

Speaking of this, this fox cultivator couldn't help but burst into tears, and many little fox cultivators cried.

Liangzi regretted a little, why did he have to go to the orphanage camp to see, these simple and loyal fox clan demon cultivators should get more resources and attention from the family than those fox cultivators with ethnic groups and family backgrounds, but they have nothing, and they still love the fox fairy forest like this.

Seeing that Young Master Liangzi was in a daze, the fox cultivator took a brand new animal skin from the mouth of the fox cultivator behind him and put it at Liangzi's feet, and said:

"Young Master Liangzi, we are too simple here, we really can't entertain a distinguished guest like you, I'm really embarrassed that you have to make a trip in person.

There is a fragrant roe deer skin here, the fur is thick, and there is a strange fragrance, which I personally hunted, please be sure to accept it, and it also represents a piece of our orphanage camp!"

Ryoko looked at the fragrant roe skin at his feet, which was a little damp but in very good condition, and then looked at the moldy and discolored animal skins that were laid in the place where the orphan fox cultivators were resting just now, and felt that his nose was a little blocked, and he didn't want to.

The fox cultivator continued: "Young Master Liangzi, please don't refuse. This piece of roe deer skin is really not available to our ancestors, but we have no better gift, so we can only ask you to accept this gift, which can be regarded as a token of gratitude to our orphanage camp, unless you look down on us orphans. ”

Ryoko felt that her nose was a little sour and her eyes were a little blocked, and she wanted to refuse.

The fox cultivator and 159 took all the orphans to lie down together, and said in unison, "Young Master Liangzi, please accept it!"

Ryoko snorted a sound from her nose, lowered her head and quickly picked up the piece of roe deer skin, and quickly rushed out of the cave.

He left in such a hurry that he didn't even say goodbye, because he didn't want these orphaned fox cultivators to see his tears.