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Qilitong, Miao altar.

On a new day, the sun shining on the altar platform feels like a new flavor. Ghost Li and Xiaobai stood on the platform in front of the altar in the middle of the mountain, looking at the war-torn land below the mountain.

Among the ruins and broken walls that can be seen everywhere, the Miao people go in and out, and from the heights, they look like ants busy for their homes.

Xiao Bai sighed, turned his head to the ghost standing beside him, and said, "You have thought about it, the monsters in the 100,000 mountains are not so easy to deal with!"

Ghost Li's expression remained unchanged, and he said, "I'm not afraid of death, what else am I afraid of?"

Xiao Bai shrugged his shoulders, shook his head with a slightly wry smile, and at this moment, there was a strange "squeak" next to him, and the two turned their heads to look, but it was Xiao Ash who ran over, but the running posture was a little strange.

After a while, the eyes of the two unexpectedly fell on the monkey's hands at the same time, and Xiao Ash carried a big bag on both sides, which was the big wine bag used by the Miao people to hold wine.

Ghost Li was stunned for a long time, and slowly turned his head to look at Xiao Bai, Xiao Bai smiled bitterly: "You don't want to look at me, I don't know. 」

Xiao Ash quickly ran closer, looking at its expression, which was completely different from the thoughtful appearance of the owner and Xiao Bai, obviously very excited, smiling from ear to ear, and the faint aroma of wine emanated from the two large wine bags in its hands. The two wine bags were swollen and swollen, and they seemed to be filled with Miao spirits, which was very different from the only small bag left in the wine fight a few days ago.

Yesterday, when Ghost Li, Xiaobai and the Great Wizard were discussing carefully, the monkey Xiao Gray was really bored in the gloomy altar, the monkey was lively, how could he endure it, so he quietly slipped out. And Ghost Li was so thoughtful at that time that he was surprised and delighted, and he didn't even notice that Xiao Ash had slipped away.

Xiao Ash unconsciously remembered the fine wine he drank that day, and he was addicted to alcohol, so he slipped away to Qilitong at the bottom of the mountain. After the fierce battle, the Miao people's homeland was shattered, it was a busy time, and Xiao Gray looked like a gray-haired monkey, how could anyone pay attention, after several searches, taking advantage of the chaos, the monkey actually found two large bags of unopened spirits in the ruins.

Last night, I don't know what secret place Xiao Ash hid these two large bags of wine, but this morning, when he saw that he was about to leave, the monkey ran out and dragged the two large bags of wine back, obviously planning to taste them along the way.

It's just that at this moment, seeing that the faces of the master Ghost Li and Xiao Bai are a little strange, Xiao Ash is a little puzzled, the monkey eyes opened to look at the two of them, and after a while, Xiao Bai covered his mouth and chuckled, and said to the ghost Li: "Forget it, you promised the Miao people such a big thing, even if you take it...... Well, it's nothing to take two bags of wine from them!"

Before she finished speaking, she laughed first, Ghost Li shook her head, and slowly turned around, leaving Xiao Gray staring at the monkey's eyes, looking at Xiao Bai, and then looking at Ghost Li, put down a wine bag, scratched her head with one free hand, and looked a little confused.

In the depths of the altar, the Miao patriarch Tu Ma Gu sat opposite the great wizard, and there was no one else around.

Tu Ma Gu was silent for a long time, and the Great Wizard did not speak, and a suffocating atmosphere wafted in the air. Finally, Tu Ma Gu's face changed, and he seemed to finally can't help it, and said, "Great Wizard, you are so badly injured, why do you have to go with these two Middle-earthers?"

The Grand Wizard sighed softly and said, "I didn't tell you just now. 」

Tu Ma Gu said hatefully: "The Li clan robbed us of the holy weapon, and we risked our lives to take it back, why bother to ask outsiders for help?"

The archwizard shook his head and said, "You're wrong. 」

Tu Ma Gu was stunned and said, "What?"

The Great Wizard was silent for a moment, and then said in a low voice, "If it is really the Li Clan who robbed us of the holy weapon, I don't have to worry so much, I'm afraid...... Alas!"

Tu Ma was puzzled and said, "Great Wizard, what do you mean by that?"

The Great Wizard said, "Do you remember the legend of the beast demon that our Miao people have passed down from generation to generation?"

Tu Ma Gu's face changed drastically, and he exclaimed, "Could it be that legend is true?"

The Great Wizard smiled bitterly and said, "Originally, it was true, when Linglong Niangniang sacrificed herself to seal the beast demon in the Demon Suppression Cave, she ordered that the descendants must not let the five beast demon holy weapons return to the Demon Suppression Cave at the same time. But by now, all five holy weapons have been lost, and I am afraid that it is really a sign of the resurrection of the beast demon. 」

The expression on Tu Ma Gu's face changed, as the patriarch of the Miao clan, he naturally knew the weight of that legend, but after a while, he still couldn't help but say, "Great Wizard, in this case, you can't leave here, just in case...... With you, our people can rest assured. 」

The Great Wizard shook his head silently and said, "My old life is only thirty days of Yang Shou at most. 」

Tu Ma Gu's body was shocked.

The Great Wizard sighed, "Actually, I am not willing to leave, I am afraid that I will die in a foreign land. But now that the five ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang are divided, and all the talents are withering, in case my expectations are good, I am afraid that no one can cope with the crisis. Although that young man in Middle-earth is not very old, he has a strange skill, and the black rod beside him is so heavy and evil that I have only seen it in my life. But the most important thing is ......."

He glanced meaningfully at Tu Ma Gu, lowered his voice, and said in a low voice, "The most important thing is the 'Xuanhuo Jian', which is known as the essence of ten thousand fires, and it is on his body. 」

Tu Ma Gu was shocked and said, "What, this thing is not burning incense......

The great wizard showed it with his eyes, and he didn't say anything, but the look of surprise in his eyes continued unabated.

The Great Wizard said slowly, "When he met me for the first time that day, there was a sign in the stone statue of the dog god behind me, and the holy fire was even more alarming, and the two beast demon holy weapons, the black staff and the bone jade, were both uneasy, if it weren't for the supreme holy artifact 'Xuanhuo Jian' that suppressed the beast demon back then, there would be nothing else. As for how this holy relic could have been drained from the Valley of Incense, I don't know. 」

Tu Ma Gu was silent.

The Grand Wizard paused for a moment, and then continued, "After that, I deliberately told the origin of the Xuanhuo Jian while I was talking, and the two of them were really surprised. Especially when it came to the 'Eight Fierce Xuanhuo Array', the two of them had a great change in their faces, thinking that they must have a close relationship with this magic weapon array. 」

Tu Ma Gu let out a long breath, obviously these words were all things he had never thought of before.

The Great Wizard said lightly: "You also know that the legend handed down by our Miao people for generations is that only this Xuanhuo Jian and the Eight Fierce Xuanhuo Array can suppress the beast demon, and now let's not say that the Xuanhuo Jian is not in our hands, that is, we snatched it from the young man's hand, but I am afraid that no one can drive it, and there is also the weird and unpredictable Eight Fierce Xuanhuo Array, which no one knows. Therefore, in such a situation, that young man is really the only hope for all beings in our southern Xinjiang, even if I die in a foreign land, I still want to go with him, I only hope that before I die, I can save his friend's life, and I hope that he will help me and the Miao people every day in this little affection. 」

Tu Ma Gu's lips trembled slightly, the wrinkles on his old face were deep, and unconsciously, a little teardrop quietly oozed out. He looked at the Great Wizard and slowly bent down, his head pressed against the cold ground.

The Great Wizard smiled, his expression a little desolate, and said, "After I leave, you don't have to worry about it, if that young man has the heart, he will send my bones back to his hometown. It's up to you to do everything here. 」

Tu Ma Gu didn't raise his head, lowered his voice, choked slightly, and said, "Great Wizard, you can rest assured. 」

The Great Wizard said leisurely, "If I go, it will be a death, but it is nothing. But you are in southern Xinjiang, the coming day is fierce, the other four tribes do not know the height of the sky, see that my Miao tribe is losing power, I am afraid that it will inevitably fall into the well, and among the 100,000 mountains, the beast demon may be resurrected at any time, the catastrophe is coming, you shoulder a heavy burden, and you must take care of yourself. 」

Tu Ma Gu gritted his teeth and agreed.

The Great Wizard slowly stood up, glanced around, and suddenly said, "If the situation is really critical in the future, although this Qili Pass is a place where our Miao people have lived for generations, it is not impossible to give up, as long as there are people, there is hope for the future. 」

Tu Ma Gu's face turned a little pale, and he said slowly, "Yes. 」

The Grand Wizard let out a long sigh and walked slowly outside.

When the rickety figure, supported by Tu Ma Gu, followed by Ghost Li and Xiaobai, walked down from the altar on the mountainside, not many people noticed.

But with the sound of footsteps, the figure of the great wizard who had not appeared on the streets of Qilitong for an unknown amount of time was finally noticed by the Miao people, and with a cry of surprise, more and more Miao people abandoned their work and gathered over.

The Great Wizard smiled and kept waving to the Miao people around him, but he never stopped, and kept walking towards the exit of Qilitong.

Finally, the Miao people gradually felt that something was wrong, and in the crowd, some people began to shout loudly in Miao language, although Ghost Li and Xiaobai didn't understand much, but they also knew what the Miao people were shouting.

The Great Wizard's face also seemed to be a little bleak, and the smile on his face full of vicissitudes gradually disappeared, replaced by a clear sadness.

But he was still silent.

Just wave your hand.

Go slowly and far.

Tu Ma Gu also stopped, stood at the front of the crowd, and silently stared at the rickety back.

The shouts and cries of the crowd were already loud at this moment, many people were panicked, and many more people had already knelt down towards the old man who was gradually moving away.

Ghost Li, who was walking behind the great wizard, silently looked at the old man, and found that on the old man's face, at some point, tears flowed everywhere.

Finally, when I reached the passage leading to the outside of the valley, the cry behind me had resounded throughout the valley.

The old man's body began to tremble slightly, and suddenly, he turned around sharply, and once again, looked at this land, this valley, this sky......

The Miao people in the distance exclaimed, and many jumped up from the ground in surprise.

However, the next moment, the Great Wizard closed his eyes tightly, as if he wanted to engrave everything in this land in his heart, frowned, and turned around again.

In the valley, there was a sudden silence.

Countless eyes, as if shouting silently behind him!

The muscles on the Great Wizard's face trembled slightly, and he slowly, slowly stepped out of his footsteps, and disappeared into the passage.

In the Seven Mile Pass, there was silence.

After a long time, I don't know who was the first to cry, and in a moment, the whole valley was filled with mournful weeping.

100,000 mountains.

Passing through the Black Forest and over seven treacherous mountain ranges, there is a mountain surrounded by black air and howling winds all year round. And under this bare mountain, without a single tree or grass, there is a big hole. The entrance of the cave is three feet high and five feet wide, and there is a yin wind whistling out of it all year round, mixed with sharp noises, as if it is some furious soul, roaring endlessly.

In the middle of the entrance of the cave, there is a stone statue standing upright, like life-size, looking like a beautiful woman, facing the depths of the Demon Suppression Cave, standing silently. The cold wind howling all year round never stopped blowing on the stone statue, making a low sound, like the fragile wooden plank that shelters the wind and rain in a storm.

It's just that she never seems to back down!

The lich, dressed in black, stood in front of the stone statue at this moment, staring silently.

The evil dragon beside him, who seemed to be particularly afraid of this stone statue, subconsciously stayed away, looked around for a while, shouted, let go of his four legs, and ran up the high mountain. Soon after, it disappeared into the black air.

The icy wind stirred the black clothes of the lich, and in the desolate landscape, the man seemed to gradually seem ethereal, with a hint of unreality.

He just kept looking at it for a long time, so long that even the golden bottle began to wonder if the man in black had also turned into a stone statue.

Narrowly escaped from that black forest, and at the same time accidentally found a killing knife deep into the rock crack under that cliff boulder, which made Jin Zhu'er vaguely guess, could it be that the general of the Ghost King Sect had entered here earlier than himself?

It's just that although the killing knife is there, the killing monk is nowhere to be seen, and the magic weapon is there, this danger can be imagined, but I am afraid that most of the killing monks have suffered accidents. In the 100,000 mountains, it is really a killing machine step by step.

But after the golden bottle groaned, it still secretly followed the Lich's footsteps. Along the way, she knew that the lich had a strange spell, so she was even more cautious, not daring to be careless, let alone approaching the black-clothed monster and the evil dragon at will, plus most of the lich thought that the person who was tracking behind her had died in the black forest, and she didn't even notice the golden bottle behind her, so she let the golden bottle follow her all the way to the ancient cave of demon suppression.

At this moment, Jin Bei'er was lying behind a small hill in the distance, looking at the black figure from a distance, and couldn't help but start to wonder if this man in black was going to stand in front of this woman's stone statue for the rest of his life?

From the time he arrived at the Demon Suppression Cave to now, the lich had been staring at the statue motionless for more than four hours.

Just when the golden bottle was about to close her eyes and fall asleep in boredom, the lich's figure finally moved. Jin Zhu'er was in high spirits and hurriedly took a closer look.

I saw that the black-clothed lich seemed to have finally made a decision after a long period of contemplation, or struggle, and bowed respectfully to the stone statue of the woman.

In the distance, the golden bottle saw the lich, and whispered something to the stone statue, but it was too far away to hear it at all. Then, the lich's body slowly turned around, drifting towards the depths of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave.

Jin Zhu'er frowned, and the mystery in her heart was getting bigger and bigger, there was obviously some great secret in that ancient cave, and it was very likely that the mysterious person Shangguan Ce talked about during the conversation with this lich was located. But in this extremely remote place, with poor mountains and bad waters, how could there be such a stone statue of a woman, which happened to be erected in the middle of the entrance of the stone cave?

And looking at the lich's expression on this stone statue, it is clear that it is closely related to this stone statue, but I am afraid that there is still an indescribable past.

Just when the golden bottle saw that the lich was about to disappear into the ancient cave, and was about to lean out and sneak over to take a closer look at the stone statue, suddenly, the lich's body suddenly stopped.

The golden bottle was taken aback, almost thinking that he had revealed his body in a hurry, and he could not help but regret it in his heart, and when he was in a hurry, he realized that the lich had not looked back at him at all, and did not seem to have found his own appearance.

Only then did she put her mind at ease, and hurriedly hid herself, Fang secretly poked her head out again, and looked in the direction of the ancient cave.

At this glance, she couldn't help but look straight in the eyes.

Just in front of the stone statue of the woman, at the entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, a cloud of white qi suddenly appeared in the air, which formed a strong contrast with the surrounding black qi and yin wind. The lich also stopped, silently staring at the white gas.

The white qi gathered more and more, gradually condensed and formed, and changed into a human form, looking from the golden bottle, it was a tall man, holding a giant sword in his right hand and a big shield in his left hand. His body was completely composed of white qi, fluttering in the yin wind, but his body movements and even the expression on his face were completely visible.

Jin Bei'er was stunned and speechless, gasped for a while, and whispered to herself, "What a yin spirit!"

She is from a demon sect, and she knows a little about such ghostly things: according to ancient legends, life is old and dead, only the soul is immortal, and at the end of one life, there will be a soul out of the body, and it will be reincarnated in the next life, life after life, and reincarnation will be endless. However, in the world, there are resentful spirits, with greed, hatred, and ignorance, fear, evil, and fear, attachment to the world, looking back on the past, and not wanting to die, which is the "yin spirit".

Back then, when Ghost Li was still a little disciple of Qingyunmen, Zhang Xiaofan, he and Lu Xueqi fell into the necromantic abyss in the Ten Thousand Bat Ancient Caves of Kongsang Mountain, and on the ruthless seaside, they encountered countless yin spirits under the abyss. It's just that those yin spirits are all mortal souls, and they were killed by the Blood Refining Hall back then and couldn't die, and ordinary people were certainly killed when they met them, but in the eyes of those who cultivated the truth, they were not powerful demons, so Zhang Xiaofan and Lu Xueqi didn't succeed in the Dao Law back then, and they could still endure for a long time.

The yin spirits that Jin Bottler saw were by no means those ordinary yin spirits, but the rarest "fierce spirits" in the legend. This kind of soul is mostly a profound person in life, but after death, because of some great indignation and infatuation, he actually gave up his life, and was willing to protect something, become a desolate wild ghost, and wander in the yang world.

This kind of fierce spirit, its own Taoism is already quite high, plus it has ghost power after death, it is even more ferocious, ordinary cultivators are not opponents at all, it can be said that they are fierce ghosts that are unique in ten thousand. It's just that people in the cultivation of truth often look at the afterlife more seriously than ordinary people, and few give up the afterlife, so the fierce spirit is so rare, and the golden bottle suddenly saw it this time, but it was really shocked.

However, the black-clad lich didn't seem to show any surprise, and he only slowly looked up at the fierce spirit that was blocking his path.

The fierce spirit's body composed of white qi was extremely tall, almost blocking the entire entrance of the Demon Suppression Ancient Cave, and the lich looked at this fierce spirit holding a sword and shield like a god of war, and suddenly sighed.

"You're finally willing to come out to see me?" he said quietly.

The fierce spirit stared coldly at the lich, his white aura and the black shadow of the lich were like two extremes that would never compromise.

"You traitor who has turned your back on your mother, who has the right to dare to say this?"

The lich's body seemed to tremble, and his whole body was in severe pain when he was stabbed by such a sentence.

He looked up at the angry face for a long time, but he was silent, and slowly lowered his head.