Chapter 35: Barren Mountains and Wild Villages
"Auntie, it's this guy!" Zhao Feixiang said with a hideous expression: "It's him......"
"Aunt?" Liu Xiu saw Zhao Feixiang pointing at herself, and secretly said in her heart, if she was not mistaken, Zhao Feixiang's aunt was at least a master of eight grades or above, that is to say, she alone could kill everyone here in seconds, and she was an ant-like existence in her eyes.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly stood up and said, "It's me!"
Zhao Feixiang was stunned for a moment, and just as he was about to speak, he noticed an extreme cold aura emanating from Zhao Ruoxian's body, he shivered, and he couldn't say the words that came to his mouth.
Seeing Zhao Ruoxian's murderous eyes, Liu Xiuru fell into the ice cave, endured the discomfort, and said righteously: "It was I who gave Senior Brother Zhao the Jade Spirit Pill to make him heal from his serious injuries!"
As soon as Zhao Feixiang heard this, he knew that something was going to happen, and hurriedly shouted: "Auntie, it's not like this! he hurt my ......" Speaking of this, his mind flashed the scene of being abused by a group of war pets in the dimensional world not long ago, and his expression became extremely painful.
"Senior Brother Zhao is right. Liu Xiu said to Zhao Feixiang with a sad face: "Senior Brother Zhao, I hurt you! If you didn't do the mission with me, you wouldn't be injured by the robbers, it's my fault!"
"What!" Zhao Ruoxian exuded a cold chill all over his body, and his eyes looked at Liu Xiu like a torch: "What you said is true?"
"It's true. Wang Fenghuang said: "Senior Aunt Zhao, we met a gang of bandits on the road, they were bullying women, Senior Brother Zhao acted bravely, and as a result, the other party was overwhelming......
"Where are those bandits now?" Zhao Ruoxian's eyes suddenly turned cold.
"They're dead. Kong Xuan walked over and flattered: "They were all kicked to death by the poor monk's nephew." ”
Zhao Ruoxian's expression softened, and she turned her head to look at Zhao Feixiang, "Xiang'er, is that so?"
Zhao Feixiang sighed, he knew that he couldn't frame Liu Xiu now, so he had to nod and say, "Yes, aunt." ”
"Hmm. Zhao Ruoxian nodded lightly, flicked his sleeves with long sleeves, and two white lights flew into the hands of Kong Xuan and Liu Xiu in an instant, and the two showed white jade bottles.
"Jade Bone Pill?" Xuankong looked at the white projectile in his hand, and said with an excited expression: "Five-grade pill Jade Bone Pill! It is rumored that it can wash the essence and improve the qualifications of martial artists!"
"Jade Bone Pill?"
Liu Xiu stared at the pill in his hand and was also extremely excited, his reborn root bone was very poor, and he was worried about how to find medicinal materials to refine the pill to improve the root bone, but he didn't expect someone to send it to the door, but he also knew in his heart that if he hadn't used the jade spirit pill to heal Zhao Feixiang's injuries, he wouldn't have been able to get this treasure medicine.
"These two bottles of elixir are a thank you for helping Feixiang. Zhao Ruoxian looked at Liu Xiu and Xuankong calmly and said lightly.
"Fairy Zhao is too polite!...... poor monk" Kong Xuan happily put away the pill, and wanted to flatter, but saw the other party take out the jade plate from the center of his eyebrows and put it in his ear and said, "Senior brother, is there something wrong?"
"What!" seemed to hear some shocked words, Zhao Ruoxian's face was cloudy and uncertain: "Senior brother, you mean Mopan Mountain......" Speaking of this, she glanced at the people gathered around her and listened: "Okay, I know, I'll rush over now!"
Putting away the jade plate, Zhao Ruoxian said to Zhao Feixiang: "Xiang'er, I have something important to deal with, you and your friends can continue the task." ”
"Auntie......" Zhao Feixiang was reluctant, thinking that his aunt had something important, so he had to let her leave.
After Zhao Ruoxian took the four disciples of the Five Elements Sect away, everyone rested in the broken temple for a night, and set off early the next morning, and at noon, they came to Yongning Town near Mopan Mountain.
Yongning Town is different from other towns, the town is very weird, like a ghost town, the streets are cold and cold, the doors of every house are covered with all kinds of rune paper, and occasionally on the side of the road, you will see several elderly people dressed in white, burning paper money with white flowers.
When the residents of the town saw Liu Xiu and his party coming here, they hid as if they had seen a ghost, and no one was willing to say more than half a word to them.
"Master Kongxuan. Walking on the street, Liu Xiu looked at the closed shops on both sides, and said to the empty Xuan beside him in confusion: "Why is this town so gloomy? It seems that something big has changed, are you sure that we are going the right way?"
"It can't be wrong!" Kong Xuan nodded firmly: "A few years ago, when the poor monk passed through this place, it was still quite lively, why haven't you seen it for a few years, and it has become like this?"
"What my aunt said last night, is it related to the changes in the town?" Zhao Feixiang looked at the town like a flower, pondering as he walked.
"No, it should have been a long time since the town happened. Ruan Mingzhu shook her head and said solemnly: "Senior Aunt Zhao also came last night, and from what she said, that incident should have just happened, so she was in a hurry to leave." ”
"Everything will be known when we find Senior Brother Wang Ning. Monk Kongxuan put down his words, quickened his pace and walked towards Mopan Mountain, and after looking in the mountains for a long time, everyone found the location of Wangfu Villa next to a stream at the foot of the mountain.
This is a huge mountain villa, the entrance of the mountain villa is overgrown with weeds, and above the half-hidden dark mansion gate, there is a dilapidated plaque with lost paint hanging diagonally, and there are two unrecognizable white lanterns next to it, which looks desolate and desolate against the background of the setting sun.
"This ...... This is the palace?" Liu Xiu and a group of monks looked at the gloomy and dilapidated mountain villa in front of them.
"It's the palace!" Kong Xuan looked at the word "Wangfu" on the plaque, nodded and said: "When the poor monk came a few years ago, the villa was not so dilapidated, could something have happened? Impossible, if something happened, how could Senior Brother Wang Ning send us a birthday invitation?"
Puzzled, he stepped forward and buckled the half-open gate, and shouted towards the courtyard covered with white silk: "Dragon and Tiger Temple Kongxuan! I have been invited by the master of your mansion to come to celebrate my birthday!
"How many are the senior monks of the Dragon and Tiger Temple?" A hoarse voice came slowly, and an old woman carrying a white lantern, dressed in white, with a blue face and sparse hair, suddenly poked her head out of the door and looked at everyone vigilantly.
"We are the monks of the Dragon and Tiger Temple who were invited by your mansion to come to celebrate their birthday!" Seeing this, Kong Xuan nodded and said.
The old woman raised her eyes and glanced at everyone lightly: "Come in!"
As soon as they entered the door, everyone was surprised to find that the sky inside the villa was even darker than outside, and in the surrounding corridors, gusts of wind blew from time to time, which was terrifying.
Following the old woman in the gloomy villa, Kong Xuan couldn't help but wonder: "Donor, the poor monk remembers that your mansion villa used to be, but it wasn't like this, did something happen?"
"Something did happen. The old woman carried the lantern and said slowly: "This is the old site of the palace, two years ago, for some reason, many disciples in the palace died suddenly, almost every day there will be a few cases, the owner of the village has no choice but to negotiate with other disciples to move out of here, the old body has lived in the villa for a lifetime, unwilling to leave, so stay here alone." ”
"That's right!" the old woman stopped suddenly, raised the lantern, reflected the zombie-like old face, and said to everyone solemnly: "The villa is haunted, and you must be careful when you rest at night." ”
As if confirming her words, a gust of wind blew, and in the dilapidated hall next to it, white silk was flying, and among the dozen coffins on the ground, there was a faint "squeak" sound echoing, and people's heads were numb when they heard it.
"Thank you donor!" "Empty Xuan said: "The poor monk and others will stay overnight, and they will leave tomorrow, and then ask the donor to tell us the new address of your faction, by the way, I wonder if the donor has seen the two monks of this temple?"
"Seven days ago, two monks came here to stay overnight. The old woman put down the lantern, turned around and led the people as she walked, and said, "But they left the next day, and the old man doesn't know where they went." ”
"Did they say anything, or did they do anything strange?" Liu Xiu then asked.
"This ......" the old woman glanced sideways at him and muttered, "They seem to be saying that Mopan Mountain is something, let the old body leave as soon as possible." ”
"What is it?" Luo Xuan was surprised, "It is rumored that Mopan Mountain was transformed by the weapons of the ancient martial immortals, could it be that they found something?"
"Possibly, we'll find out tomorrow in the mountains. Wang Fenghuang nodded, squinting at Zhao Feixiang, who was looking left and right around him, and her face was pale, and she said confusedly: "Senior Brother Zhao, what's wrong with you?
When everyone heard this, they all looked at Zhao Feixiang, and Luo Xuan smiled: "Haha! Senior Brother Zhao can't be afraid, right?"
"Chaos...... Nonsense!" Zhao Feixiang glared at Luo Xuan, and said righteously: "I am a genius on the first day of the Five Elements Sect! How can I be afraid of this broken mountain villa!" A yin wind swept by, and he couldn't help but shrink his neck.
"We're here!" the old woman led everyone through several corridors to a small courtyard, pointed to the dilapidated side room, and said: "You can stay here for the time being, try not to go out of the courtyard at night, if there is anything to do to find the old body, by the way, here is a wilderness, food is scarce, and you still need to prepare your own dinner." ”
"This is natural!" Kong Xuanmu sent the old woman away, commanded a few people to clean up the three rooms, and then made a fire to cook with everyone.
In the dead of night, the blood moon hangs high, and the whole mountain villa is shrouded in a chill.
Quietly in the room, the monks lay on the stone couch and fell asleep, snoring one after another, at this moment, a black shadow slowly drifted through the window, stopped at the window, and slowly watched the people in the room.
After a long time, the black shadow fluttered, and a slight "creaking" sound came from the mouth, and then floated into the room, revealing a cloak of hair, a long tongue exposed, dripping with mucus, and a bloody face with a blurred flesh and blood.
The alien looked around the room, floated straight to Liu Xiu, who was sleeping on the stone couch, and stuck its head above his head, the mucus dripping from his long tongue on his cheeks.
"What is it?" Feeling the coldness on his cheeks, Liu Xiu subconsciously raised his hand and touched it, opened his hazy eyes, and frowned at the sticky object in his hand.
"Zhao Feixiang, you damn thing! Saliva is flowing in my face!" angrily glaring at Zhao Feixiang, who was snoring like thunder next to him, he rolled over, turned his back to him, and after a while, fell into a deep sleep again.