The wind turned cold and drained to the southwest.

The mountains and forests are silent, and they are silent.

The lonely mountain wildflowers, dangling their petals alone, tried their best to shake off the heavy dew drops on their bodies.

The eerie atmosphere lasted for about half a pillar of incense.

All the way to the other side of the mountain, Mo Xian, who also felt the aura of danger, put down his gaze and quickly swept back to the end of the mountain pass. When he saw that Xia Xun and Bai Ma were so surprised, Mo Xian secretly confirmed the conjecture in his heart and counted them.

There must be a demon in this matter...

"Got it?"

"Yes. ”

Mo Xian asked, Xia Xun turned his head when he heard the sound, and nodded with difficulty.

Although he expected it, Mo Xian's heart sank: "Very strong." ”

"Extremely dangerous. Xia Xun added.

"Let's go?"

"Nope. ”

Xia Xun shook his head and rejected Mo Xian's suggestion.

Mo Xian didn't have anything to say anymore, he knew very well that with Xia Xun's divine sense, he could sense the existence of that wisp of breath, which was entirely possible. But Xia Xun is only an out-of-body cultivator, but he can perceive the danger of this breath, which means that this danger may be actively found at the door, rather than passively perceived.

If that's the case, it's not a good thing.

"Do you know what it is?" Mo Xian asked again after a long time.

Xia Xun seemed to hesitate and did not answer immediately. He subconsciously scraped his index finger on the bridge of his nose and was silent for a moment. When the frightened thoughts gradually subsided, he solemnized his expression and said, "We are estimated to have been fooled again." ”

"The corpse is a dead thing, the evil is a void, and the two are born together. The Bloodeater is a zombie. Zombies, born from the resentment of heaven and earth, are immortal, immortal, and immortal, and are abandoned by the three worlds of heaven, earth and man outside the six realms of life, wandering and displaced, and feeding on resentment and evil in the human world. But zombies are spiritless, even if they are watered by dragon energy, dragon blood is pregnant with King Kong and does not damage the body, and no matter how fierce they are, they can't sense the avenue of heaven and earth. If you can't follow the way of heaven, you can't gather your spirit, so where does the momentum come from? Besides, you can still be dozens of miles away to deter the spirit and spirit. In this way, what is hidden behind the fog is not a corpse at all!" Perhaps feeling that what he said was too absolute, Xia Xun shook his head and added: "At least it won't be an ordinary corpse." ”

"Son!"

The white horse is psychic, as soon as Xia Xun finished speaking, it seemed to agree with Xia Xun's statement, nodding and flicking its tail, raising its head and howling, and stepping on the horse's hooves. Xia Xun then stretched out a hand to soothe Bai Ma's emotions, and then asked Xiang Moxian: "What do you think?"

Mo Xian thought for a while and said simply: "It's possible, because it's really strong." ”

"How strong?" Xia Xun asked.

"In the early days of the royal realm. ”

"Just the beginning?"

Xia Xun obviously didn't trust Mo Xian's judgment.

Mo Xian's tone was a little bit: "Undoubtedly." ”

"Oh, that's weird..."

Seeing that Mo Xian was sure, Xia Xun was even more suspicious.

Although Xia Xun's cultivation is not good, he is only a small out-of-body experience, but he has grown up in that village that is taboo in the world since he was a child. Who was there in that village? From the mortal body to the heavenly saint, he hadn't seen any level of cultivator? It was precisely because he had seen them all and was familiar with them that he knew very well what kind of power a cultivator who had just stepped into the realm of the king should have.

Apocalypse forging body, the king concentrates.

The two realms are like a chasm.

For cultivators who have just entered the King Realm, it is difficult for the surging spiritual qi in their bodies to adapt to the body of the Heavenly Apocalypse Realm to the King Realm in a short period of time, so this process of adaptation is defined as the early stage of the King Realm. Once you get used to this process and integrate your flesh and blood with your essence and spirit, you will be born with the unique "potential" of the King Realm. The stronger the potential, the stronger the person, and even beyond the rules of heaven and earth, it can become its own circle. It's like asking Cao Renxuan, the Lord of the Heavenly Pavilion, what he shows in the deserted village is only hundreds of feet up and down. And the saint in the Soul Chasing Tower, as well as the old man who asked the Tianshan Mountain, the momentum they showed covered a hundred and ten miles casually, which was the difference in the realm.

And then look at the breath that comes out of the canyon...

Although the aura is faint and does not have the slightest lethality, it is still terrifying at a distance of forty or fifty miles, and it is definitely not an ability that can be possessed when entering the king realm for the first time. According to Xia Xun's estimate, those who can have such a range of general trends are at least the same level as Li Qingfeng, that is, the king realm Dacheng. And it is not ruled out that it is likely to be close to the peak of Xia Yuan's level of the King Realm. But no matter which of the two is either, it is not something that Xia Xun and Mo Xian can deal with.

"What do you think?" Mo Xian asked coldly.

"I think it's going to be stronger. ”

"Dacheng?"

Xia Xun shook his head: "I can't give a clear answer, after all, I can only sense a wisp of breath, and I can't trace the source of the breath." ”

"A wisp of breath?"

Mo Xian seemed to hear something wrong from Xia Xun's words, his eyes were suspicious, and he asked, "Could it be that you only sense a wisp of breath?"

"Uh..."

Xia Xun is very smart, Mo Xian will understand when he asks him this. Mo Xianzhi must have sensed more than one wisp of breath.

Xia Xun asked, "Is there anything else?"

"Yes. ”

"Where?"

“......”

Mo was suspicious and puzzled.

Because the aura behind Mo Xian's head is secretly different, it is easier for people to detect than the wisps in the depths of the canyon. As a result, Mo Xian had already discovered the existence of the latter half a day ago, but the latter's breath was usually harmonious, not like a plan, but Xia Xun didn't point to it, so Mo Xian thought that Xia Xun had the bottom in his heart, so he didn't ask.

It's just that who knows, it turns out that Xia Xun hasn't noticed it so far?

Thinking of this, Mo Xian directly stretched out his hand, pointed to a dense mountain forest outside the southwest of the canyon in the distance, and said clearly: "There are five people in the dense forest. ”

"So far?"

The center of his eyebrows sank slightly, and he hesitated for a moment.

"Are you sure?"

"Definitely. Mo Xian replied in the affirmative.

"When did you notice it?"

"Four pillars of incense. ”

"Malice?"

"None. ”

"Motivation?"

"I don't know. ”

"Tsk..."

Mo Xian was puzzled, and Xia Xun was even more puzzled.

Without it, it is too unreasonable.

It stands to reason that the five big living people are hiding in the dense forest dozens of miles away, such a distance, even Xia Xun can't cover it with all his divine sense, how can Mo Xian detect it? What's more, the people hidden in the dense forest did not reveal malice like in the canyon, Xia Xun never found the clues, but Mo Xian was aware of it early on, which is very unreasonable.

"How is the cultivation?" Xia Xun asked again.

Mo Xian didn't think much about it, and replied directly: "It's all above me." ”

Xia Xun frowned: "Are you sure?"

"Sure. ”

"Tsk..."

"No way. ”

"Cultivation is above you, they can't be discovered by you. ”

“......”

Mo Xian said for sure, Xia Xun shook his head in disbelief.

Puzzled, while chattering, Xia Xun followed Mo Xian's point, and looked suspiciously at the dense forest in the distance...

The dense forest is about thirty or forty miles from the col, and sits on the southwest edge of the entrance to the canyon. The tide and fog filled the forest, a vast gray and white, virtual and real, and there was no end in sight. In the distance, birds rise and fall from time to time in the mountains, and they seem to be a little angry. It's just that the gloom under the haze is easy to prohibit, and it can't be seen clearly at all.

At this time, deep in the jungle...

"Did you find out?"

"Ahem... What do you mean, you must have been discovered!"

"It's all the old man's fault, it's okay to find trouble, I have to provoke the things inside. It's good, we've been exposed!"

"Huh..."

"Can I be blamed for this?"

In the dense and damp locust forest, there is a whisper, as if someone is arguing, and a fresh smell of blood can be smelled in the distance.

Over the treetops, through the fog.

Sniff the human voice and the fishy smell and look down.

The first thing that catches your eye is an elk lying on the wet grass. The elk is sturdy, more than ten feet high, nearly one zhang long, and two huge and mighty horns stand like iron tree thorns, which are half a zhang high. The eyes were closed, and a bony incision ran from the base of its neck to its ribs, completely cutting off its vitality. The blood that flowed from the incision was still hot, like the water of a small stream, and it had soaked half of the elk's body as it fell to the ground...

Not far from here, a few steps to the left, stands a huge moss-covered rock. The surface of the rock was somehow plastered with many palm-sized yellow notes.

The three elders each carried a tattered bag, squatted or stood beside the rock, each holding a brush stained with deer blood in their hands, whispering and communicating, while burying their heads in writing some unknown patterns on the yellow paper. Crooked, the words are not like words, the lines are not like the lines, but there are a few "ghost paintings" used by Maoshan Taoists to drive away evil spirits and demons.

Behind them, an old woman with a compass in her hand stood.

She looked up at the direction of the col beyond the dense forest, as if she was thinking. A hunchbacked old man with his waist bowed like a shrimp stood half a step behind the old woman, scratching his withered hair, and looking at the three old men on the side with a smirk.

"You can't blame me for this. I'm just trying to get to the bottom of it. Who knows, there will really be big fish in this ravine? Moreover, there are two..."

"Are you justified?"

"Shhhhh

Among the three old men who were drawing talismans around the rock, the sturdiest old man tore off the talisman paper that had been drawn and threw it into the package behind him. Then he took out two blank pieces of yellow rune paper and pasted them on the rock, and the brush was stained with blood on the ground, and then continued to write.

As he wrote, he reproached: "Before you go in, the senior sister will give you a thousand advices, there must be a demon inside, don't act rashly! How did you do it? You still throw a stone into it if you have nothing to do, are you looking for death?"

"Hehe..."

The speaker spoke in a hurry, but his expression was quite calm.

The hunchbacked old man scratched his head in embarrassment and said aggrievedly: "Didn't you say that you would throw stones first and ask for directions, then I... Won't I just do what you think, this... That's right. ”

"Ahem... Are you illiterate?

The weak old man was so angry that he coughed dryly, and stared back at the hunchbacked old man: "Even if we really let you throw stones to ask for directions, we will let you take stones to throw." Ahem... Who told you to move such a big piece and throw it in? Show off your ability, right? You love to show off so much, why don't you just move a mountain and throw it in?"

"I can't move the mountain, I..." The hunchbacked old man was even more embarrassed: "I don't think the pebbles will definitely be able to smash the Dao... So..."

"So, you're going to smash the big-headed Buddha now!"

"Oh, I can't be blamed for that. Even if I don't smash it, when the formation base is all dug up by Mo Xian, the ghosts inside will also be awakened..."

"Stop arguing. ”

"Hey..."

When the old men were arguing, the old woman in front of him turned around with a compass and stopped the conversation.

She glanced at the four old men, and said softly: "Don't talk nonsense, we have been exposed to the previous battle with that ghost. Half a hundred miles away, with the same origin, he can definitely perceive our existence. Let's take care of the things first. ”

"Ahem..."

The frail old man coughed, and quickly interjected and suggested, "That... If it is really exposed, the secrets in the palace will not be hidden. Ahem... How about avoiding it first?"

"I can't avoid it. ”

The old woman shook her head and directly rejected the frail old man's suggestion.

"Now that it has been detected, it doesn't matter whether it's exposed or not. What's more important is what's inside..."As she spoke, the old woman took the compass forward slightly, and the four old men all looked at it in unison.

But see, the compass is still the broken eighteen-palace grid. It's just that the small sword in the center of the compass is no longer the light red of the moon ago, but the silver-white of the body, and the tip of the sword is quietly pointing to the southwest of the mountain col where Xia Xun and Mo Xian are located. On the upper right side of the compass, the three squares lined up are faintly glowing with black and red light, flickering and flickering, as if a living creature is breathing. In particular, the palace grid in the middle of the kan character is black like mist, and a crimson evil character appears in it, as if revealing some unknown secret.

"Tsk..."

"So there are more than two big fish?"

"What the hell is this place where such ghosts can be born?"

Although the group has already dived into the canyon to explore with their own ability, and they have speculated about the things in the valley in their hearts, they still can't help but be surprised when they see the compass at this time.

"Senior sister, there is nothing wrong with this plate, right?"

"Tsk..."

After everyone had looked at the compass, the old woman withdrew her hand.

"Plates don't lie. So I have to suspect that the old Taoist who can fly in the sky is the great feng shui master of the Western Regions. Otherwise, such a great array of feng shui, devouring the dragon and the earth, would not be detected by people at all. ”

"Isn't Feng Shui for women?"

"Can't a woman be disguised as a man?"

"Uh..."

"Ahem... So what do we do?"

The three old men who drew the talisman stopped their movements one after another.

The frail old man was the most cautious, glancing weakly at the southwest beyond the dense forest.

"Ahem... If the plate is right, the big fish here, even if we add a few pieces, I don't dare to pack the ticket and say that it will be able to hang it. Now the two boys in the mountain are very playable to break through the formation. If they were allowed to break into the canyon, it would be a big deal. Ahem..."

"Senior sister, let's intercept them first. ”

"Yes, I don't care so much, let's cut it off..."

“......”

A few old men gossiped and made suggestions.

The old woman didn't know what she meant, but she didn't answer.

The blood of the dead elk on the grass and muddy ground was about to run dry, and the surface of the pool of blood formed a thin blood scab, like a disgusting black bump. After a while, the old woman seemed to have made up her mind.

"Why. ”

"What's here," the hunchbacked old man replied with a smirk.

The old woman commanded, "Go find some wet wood and make a fire to make smoke." Remember, the smoke must be thick enough to be seen clearly from the other side of the mountain. ”

"Okay. ”

The hunchbacked old man didn't ask the reason, and responded cheerfully.

The old woman then looked at the three people behind the hunchbacked old man, and continued to command, "Second child." ”

"Huh. The sturdy old man responded.

"You set out to patrol the 100-mile area around the canyon, as well as survey the formation of the position in the canyon, and draw a map for me. Remember, don't act rashly, and don't go into the valley alone. ”

"Understood. ”

The sturdy old man replied, and the old woman turned her gaze to the remaining two old men.

"Sixth, ninth, you two continue to be in charge of making talismans. That kid has always been cautious. After breaking the formation, he will inevitably wait for the tide to drain for a few days before exploring the valley. Therefore, you should have eight days, and within these eight days, you must make me 8,000 fire formation talismans and 300 thunder penalty array flags. ”

"Do you need so much?"

"Senior sister, what kind of array is it?"

The old man, who was called Lao Jiu, was surprised when he heard this.

After the previous exploration, he knew that the canyon had been arranged by the masters, and there must be many ghosts in captivity. However, he had never considered that to deal with these ghosts, he would need to consume such a large amount of array weapons.

Before he could continue to speak, the old woman waved her hand to stop him, and said without question: "That's it, only a lot is not less." Here is the dragon devouring fierce land, and there are masters in the feng shui array, pregnant and nurturing the valley of the charm of the spirit of the spirit of the dragon I don't know how many years, its number and ferocity, must be far more than we saw before. What's more, there are three ghosts that are no less than us? Although I don't know why, those two boys are determined to break the formation, and they must have some plot against something in the valley. In this case, let's be fearless when we talk more, but sacrifice our lives to accompany the gentleman and prepare for the worst. You have two control arrays, the more outside the guarantee, the better. All the materials needed to make the utensils are the responsibility of me and the old man. Eight days later, there will be a fierce battle, a matter of life and death, and you must not take it lightly. Can you remember them all?"

"Uh..."

"Understood. ”

“......”

The old woman spoke decisively and solemnly, and no one doubted her judgment here...

After all, twenty years have passed. Since the shocking battle of that year, they were ordered to serve the sword and hide in Yueyang, and the four old men had never seen the senior sister in front of them choose one thing so carefully. So much so that even the matter of life and death blurted out, which shows how terrible things are in the depths of the canyon...