When Hua Ruxue and Su Yi returned along the original road, Lin Xi and the others had already returned to the meeting place.
"How's the situation?" Su Yi asked Lin Xi and the others. Lin Xi's lips raised, there must be good news.
Lin Xi held a blood-stained wooden sign and a storage bag in both hands and said, "I lived up to the trust of the two captains and found this in the corner at the end."
Su Yi took the identity card from Lin Xi's hand, and the two broken pieces merged into one, forming the word "Chu and Tang".
Su Yi was stunned for a moment when he saw the name. Hua Ruxue noticed something strange about Su Yi and went over to check the wooden sign.
I saw the words "Chu and Tang" engraved on the top.
Chu and Tang. Hua Ruxue recited the name silently in her heart, and she couldn't help but feel a little surprised. The fifth Lord of the Underworld was called Chu Tang.
The two looked at each other, and then shook their heads. There were so many people with the same name in the world, it must just happen to be the same.
The underworld has disappeared, and now people are not allowed to become ghosts after death. How can the Lord of the Underworld reappear in the human world?
Su Yi opened the storage bag. Inside there were mountains of spiritual stones and two mid-grade tenth-grade magic weapons, as well as four ninth-grade formation disks, more than a dozen eighth-grade formation disks and several writing techniques.
These are enough to prove Chu Tang's identity as the grandson of that senior. Ordinary people would never be able to own a ninth-grade formation disk in their lifetime, but there are nine in this storage bag.
"Are there any other traces besides this storage bag near this wooden sign?" Hua Ruxue asked. Chu Tang was injured by the Hundred-Step Snake, so there must be a lot of blood near the wooden sign.
Based on the situation in Yanmiao Village, it is very difficult to make life and soul tablets for the villagers. In recent years, only the villagers and the child have visited the underground palace, so this may be the only wooden tablet.
The senior only told them that the child's surname was Chu, so he must have found it correctly. There was only a wooden sign with the surname Chu in the underground palace.
Coupled with the evidence from the contents of the storage bag, there was no problem with Chu Tang's identity.
But Hua Ruxue couldn't help but confirm with Lin Xi.
"There are still a lot of blood stains near the wooden sign." Lin Xi said, "If the captain is suspicious, why not take a look at the image left on the wooden identity sign?"
When Hua Ruxue heard this, she realized that she had become so irritable just because of a name.
Su Yi pinched it and unfolded the image recorded on the identity card.
In the picture, the seventeen-year-old boy's eyes were closed, his face was as white as paper, his lips were dark, and he was huddled in the corner in pain. The bite marks left by the snake on his calf were clearly visible. At this time, there was no more blood flowing out, and the blood on the ground was The blood has also coagulated.
The image maintains this scene until it disappears.
"This child is only seventeen years old." Ning Shuyan clenched the umbrella in her hand, feeling a little sorry for the young man named Chu Tang, but then she thought about it and said, "How innocent are the villagers in Yanmiao Village?"
"Village members of Yanmiao Village?" Lin Feng and others looked at each other, and Lin Feng asked in confusion: "I just wanted to ask, who is Chu Tang? I remember that we entered the village together, and then the village chief arranged a place for us. Why? When we woke up, we were lying outside the village? The village was also empty?"
Hua Ruxue took the wooden sign and storage bag from Su Yi. She stared at the two things in her hands and fell into deep thought. She ignored Lin Feng's question. She only felt that her head was a little confused, as if she had missed some key information.
She lowered her eyes and began to think carefully about everything that happened in Yanmiao Village.
Su Yi seemed to sense her thoughts, and took the initiative to explain to Lin Feng and others: "Yanmiao Village is now a deserted village."
"Desolate village? What deserted village? Where are the villagers and the village chief we saw when we came here?" Lin Feng asked.
"We'll talk as we walk."
Su Yi briefly recounted what happened after they entered Yanmiao Village.
Hua Ruxue listened carefully, and then based on Su Yi's retelling, she recounted the process of entering and leaving Yanmiao Village.
As soon as everyone entered Yanmiao Village, they entered the illusion of Yanmiao Village woven by Shuiyue Mirror. The time in the illusion stayed on the day when Chu and Tang died.
Immediately afterwards, she, Su Yi, and Snake Vulture went to the village to inquire about the news. Snake Vulture was imprisoned, and the senior guided him through the mouth of Snake Vulture.
They went to find out the truth about Chu Tang's death.
The three of them walked into the ancestral hall under the guidance of the village chief, and Lin Feng and six others were sent out of Shuiyue Mirror at the same time.
In the ancestral hall, they learned about the village annals of Yanmiao Village. According to the records in the village annals, they could determine that the time when their predecessors brought Chu Tang into the village was the 80,000th year of the Immortal Calendar, which was fourteen years ago.
Ten years later, when the senior completed the dual formations of the Soul Leaving Formation and the Yin Gathering Formation, the senior and the village chief arranged an enemy attack and imprisoned Yan Chenrui and others into the Lingyin Underground Palace to induce the birth of Lingyin Grass.
When the senior ascended, he left Chu Tang in the care of the village chief. In the next few years, villagers continued to discover the secrets of Lingyin Underground Palace under the guidance of the village chief. The villagers who knew the secret eventually became the nourishment of Lingyin Grass.
Until a year ago, Yu Yan discovered the secret of Lingyin Underground Palace and secretly planned to bring Chu Tang and Baibu Snake into Lingyin Underground Palace, causing Chu Tang to die from snake poison.
After Chu Tang's death, the ascended senior got the news and weaved an illusion with the water moon mirror, pulling the remaining people in Yanmiao Village into the illusion in order to find the truth about Chu Tang's death.
But Yuyan left Yanmiao Village on the night of Chutang's death, so she, the real culprit, did not enter the illusion, which led to the senior's delay in finding the truth about Chutang's death.
"Senior, do you really want to know the truth about Chu Tang's death?" Hua Ruxue suddenly asked.
Hua Ruxue's voice echoed in the underground palace. Su Yi shook his head. The senior's actions were different. He was not sure what the senior's true thoughts were.
"Why do you ask that? That senior has used Ah Jiu to guide us from the beginning to find the truth about Chu Tang's death. If the senior had not cared about Chu Tang, he would not have refined the Immortality Pill for him and left behind many treasures, let alone After ascension, he used his spiritual consciousness to create illusions and harmed so many people. The senior's concern is really terrifying." Ning Shuyan said.
It's really terrible. He harmed so many people for his own selfishness, but in the end he failed to save Chu Tang's life.
Hua Ruxue looked at the nine people behind her. Judging from their age and experience, none of them were Feng Helan and Lin Xi.
She asked the two of them: "Brother Feng, Brother Lin Xi, you two are well-informed, but do you think anything is wrong?"
Feng Helan seemed not to have expected that she would be asked a question. She was stunned for a moment and then said:
"It makes sense to say that the senior didn't want to mention Chu Tang's name, which would only increase his sorrow. But it seems a bit unreasonable that the senior used Miss Ning's contracted beast as a hostage."
Originally, Hua Ruxue had always wanted to find out the truth about the child's death. She just needed to collect the Lingyin grass, so she didn't care about it.
But now that I think about it, it’s really wrong.
If the village chief wants Snake Vulture to stay because he is afraid that he will die if the illusion of Yanmiao Village is destroyed, then what about the senior?
The senior's consciousness is attached to the Shuiyue Mirror, and the illusion created by the Shuiyue Mirror will be destroyed if it is destroyed. He has already killed the village chief once, will he care about killing him a second time?
But the seniors just left an insignificant snake vulture as a snake essence. The relationship between the demon clan and humans was in dire straits, so the seniors were so sure that they would not abandon the snake vultures?
Even if he leaves anyone behind, it will make her believe that he cares about Chu Tang more than the snake vulture or the demon clan.
"That senior killed all the villagers in Yanmiao Village, will he really let us go?" Lin Xi thought for a moment and asked softly.
Yes, senior has killed so many people, why would he let them go?
Before she learned the true identity of her predecessor who massacred the entire Yanmiao Village, she naively thought that even if she didn't find the truth about Chu Tang's death, she could escape as long as she tried her best.
No, no, Hua Ruxue suddenly realized the problem. Even after she knew the true identity of her senior, she still believed in her heart that "senior will let them go."
The reason why she came to this understanding was because the senior left only the snake vulture in the illusion!
She would actually regard her predecessor’s leaving the snake vulture as a kind of mercy!
Hua Ruxue clenched the wooden sign in her hand. She had been careless before and had to think of a way to deal with it as soon as possible.
"Do you want to fight?" Ning Shuyan reached out and held the sword at her waist with a firm look in her eyes, "Even if I can't fight, I have to ask that senior if he ever regrets it?"
Lin Feng kept silently away from Ning Shuyan, and approached Hua Ruxue fearfully, "Even if we want to fight, we have never seen that senior with our own eyes. At any rate, he is also the spiritual consciousness left by the ascended immortal, and there is the Shuiyue Mirror. , if we are all trapped in an illusion by him, wouldn’t we become lambs to be slaughtered?”
Never met your senior in person? Trapped in a fantasy world? Lamb to the slaughter?
Lin Feng's voice was like a warning bell, echoing in Hua Ruxue's mind. She stared closely at the mark on the stone wall, then followed the prompts on the mark and silently turned around and walked towards the next passage.
At this moment, Su Yi suddenly turned around and looked at Feng Helan and the others standing behind him, and seemed to realize something was wrong.
The two remained silent, pretending to be nonchalant and continued to follow the mark.
Hua Ruxue raised her hand gently, and Su Yi handed over her wrist tacitly.
"We have just walked this road." Hua Ruxue walked. She had been staring at the signs when she came, so she had not memorized the road. It was not until she saw the repeated signs that she realized that she was lost.
"I remember all the marks here, there are no new additions, they are repetitions."
"According to the speed at which we came, we have already reached the fourth floor. If no one has changed the mark, then the road to the fourth floor has disappeared. This is an illusion." Su Yi felt her worry and self-blame. Emotionally, he comforted: "Let's find a solution together."
When did the danger come to them? She hadn't noticed anything unusual before.
Hua Ruxue once again recalled what happened in Shuiyue Mirror. This time she discovered the problem, "From the time Lin Feng and the six were sent out of Shuiyue Mirror, everything was moving in the wrong direction."
In the ancestral hall, she had not yet realized that the three of them were in the illusion of Shuiyuejing, so she lied to the village chief that she and Ning Shuyan were the apprentices of that senior and had passed through the missing formation.
Even though the village chief knew that the Lost Tracing Array had not yet been activated, and that she and Ning Shuyan were not the apprentices of their predecessors, he came up with a way to identify their identities - taking out the Soul Leaving Array and the Yin Gathering Array.
It was as if he knew their purpose of coming in advance and was guiding them deliberately.
When she learned about the existence of these two formations, her first reaction was that there was Lingyin Grass here! At that moment she got the news she wanted, and she was in an extremely excited state.
Then, she made a judgment based on the situation at the time.
She didn't notice the village chief's aura, and the village chief easily dodged Ning Shuyan's attack. From these two points, she judged that the village chief was very powerful, and he might not necessarily be her opponent if he faced her head-on.
Then, based on the village chief's series of inconsistent performances, it was judged that the village chief had been placed under some kind of restraint and that someone could easily kill him.
When she asked the village chief, "What year, month and day is it now?" The village chief's body stiffened as if he would be killed in the next second, which made her even more convinced that the senior could easily kill the village chief.
Based on these three judgments, she sincerely did not want to confront the village chief and the senior.
Subtly, those two people became existences that could absolutely overwhelm her, and they became existences that she subconsciously did not want to regard as hostile.
So when she learned that the senior only left the snake vulture behind, she mistakenly thought that it was a good disappearance and news that could lead to reconciliation.
She even wanted to quickly complete what the senior had told her to do, then get the Lingyin Grass and leave Yanmiao Village.
She didn't even notice that the real crisis was right next to her.
"When the village chief mentioned the Soul Leaving Formation and the Yin Gathering Formation, the senior had already relied on the phantom created by the Water Moon Mirror to disguise himself as one of the six people." Su Yi said slowly, and he gradually understood. What happened.
From the moment Lin Feng and the other two were sent out of the illusion, the senior began to make plans.
First, using the Soul Leaving Formation and the Yin Gathering Formation as a guide, they told the three of them that the Lingyin Grass they wanted was here. In order to get information about Lingyin Grass, they will definitely work hard to help the senior.
Then the senior left the snake vulture behind just to give them the illusion that even if they left, the senior would not hurt them.
In this way, they
They will complete the tasks assigned by their seniors as quickly as possible in a relatively relaxed and harmonious atmosphere.
The senior didn't want to tell them Chu Tang's name. Maybe Feng Helan said he didn't want to mention sad things, but the most fundamental reason was: there was no need to tell them. Z.br>
The senior himself is among them!
The senior's spiritual consciousness relied on the Shuiyue Mirror to disguise himself as one of the six people. When the six people found the ancestral hall, it was completely dark, and night was the best disguise.
Hua Ruxue turned around, her sharp eyes quickly scanning Lin Feng, Feng Helan, Lin Xi, He Yuan, Lin Tian, and Huang.
Among the six, she is most familiar with Lin Feng, Feng Helan and Lin Xi. Now she can only confirm that there is no problem with the three of them.
However, she soon found her target.
Hua Ruxue said: "Senior, after all, there is only one spiritual consciousness in the human world. No matter how realistic it is with the water moon mirror, it is just an illusory one."
"Now we are in the illusion of Shuiyue Mirror. If we want to escape successfully, we need to find something that overlaps with reality." Su Yi raised the luminous pearl in his hand and illuminated the surrounding area even brighter.
It is indeed an illusion made with a water-moon mirror, even a shadow and the dust mixed in the wind are so lifelike.
Ning Shuyan, who had been holding an umbrella over there, suddenly moved the umbrella in her hand slightly. She looked up at the top of her head and said with a little joy: "Great, nothing is falling on top of my head! Finally, I don't need to hold an umbrella anymore." "
Lin Feng, who had been following Hua Ruxue, looked around carefully and whispered: "Do you feel that we are on the fifth floor and have been walking for a long time?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone stopped in place.
There was silence in the dark Lingyin Underground Palace, and the dim light emitted by the night pearl lengthened the shadows of everyone.
In the shadow-covered area, black shadows tore open the ground and slowly crawled out like evil spirits from hell.
