Tuofeng Ridge is located near Laoya Town, the upper reaches of the Shajiang River. Outside the town is a mountain ridge that looks like Tuofeng, and there is also a dilapidated Dragon King Temple outside.

Posa Forest is in a war-torn place, and no local people know what happened a hundred years ago. The origin of the Dragon King Temple has long been buried in the dust of war and no one knows it.

At dusk, five figures appeared outside the Dragon King Temple, which had already collapsed, and stood in front of the old temple and talked softly:

"...Looking at the traces, the stone statues in the temple have been said for at least hundreds of years; the people built temples and built temples, and most of them were accidentally witnessing the true appearance of the immortal demon, and regarded them as gods out of fear; since they are dragon heads, I guess they are a dragon that can only transform into human form..."

"Brother Zhao, you are a sword cultivator, still understand these?"

"My master is a Taoist priest. Although I have never taught me step by step, I have said these simple things. The blood immortal has a profound knowledge of the Tao and must know more than me."

"This is nothing nonsense. Master Ba Xue is famous for his wise and bravery. There is an old saying in the Tiecu Mansion, "The Tiecu Mansion has a stone in his brain, the ancestor owns eight dou, the concubine takes two dou, and Master Ba Xue takes one dou, and the rest of the people are owed..."

"Jiujiang, your flattery personality needs to be changed, and at least you have to learn to shoot the right place; for the men of Tiecu Mansion, being smart is not a compliment; being smart means that you can judge the situation when doing things, and in some cases you will be timid. My men of Tiecu Mansion, you can do anything but not be timid. If you have a brain, you will never let your brain be used. No matter what kind of Immortal Ancestor you are, you will dare to gesture. If you dare to offend me, you will dare to beat you to death. When this "advance and no retreat" style of the sect will be beaten out, your opponent will be timid first when you see you, and you will be defeated without fighting..."

"I'll receive teaching, thank you for your advice..."

...

In a small woods about half a mile away from the Dragon King Temple, Cui Yingying, dressed as a mature beauty, pressed the hilt of the scimitar at her waist and listened to the chat of the five people. She couldn't help but shake her head secretly and said in her heart:

"Yutang, you disciples, one is better than the other."

After a long time, he had already returned from Zuo Mansion and was almost fed by Mrs. Zuo to become a fat old ancestor Shangguan, and responded in the heart lake:

"If you have a brain, you don't let your brain use it. It means overcoming your natural instincts, not being afraid, timid and other emotions to influence your behavior; you would rather die than surrender when you shouldn't do things, and you will die if you should do things. You can't understand what you are cowardly..."

"Yeah?"

"snort……"

After humming coldly, there was no sound again.

Cui Yingying waited for a moment without answering, and she was too lazy to touch her plump and round cold butt with her eyes turned back to the Dragon King Temple.

The five people in the Dragon King Temple were Shangguan Baxue and two fellow Taoists who had worked together to eliminate demons. They came here to investigate the monk's loss of contact in the Tuofengling area.

Cheng Jiujiang and Zhao Wuxie were walking in Fulin. I heard that Shangguan Baxue came to eliminate monsters. Because the distance was not too far, he followed him to take advantage of the opportunity, which was similar to following the boss to fight monsters and pick up equipment.

However, the situation in the Tuofengling area is not as light as the five people chatting.

Cui Yingying's combat power is not very high, but the age of a woman who is 3,000 years older is here, and her experience is far beyond that of an ordinary monk.

She was originally following Zuo Lingquan as a little tail. After catching the river crab sperm, she took the lead to the upstream.

Observing the trend of Shajiang River Road on the road, we can see that this river road entering the sea is a ‘dragon road’, that is, the inland dragon. The route of walking into the river and turning into dragons is similar to the Qingdu River of the Nine Sects, but the scale is much smaller.

In addition to river fish, there are also snakes and eels. As long as the spiritual veins of the Shajiang River are not broken, there must be a "blessed land" for dragons to practice upstream.

After Cui Yingying came to Lion Camel Ridge, she found that the density of snakes in the forest was far higher than that in other places. The people in the town even made a living by catching snakes. This "blessed land" is likely to be nearby.

However, there is nothing underground in Shitu Ridge. The nearby area is dozens of miles away, and it is difficult to determine the location.

With Cui Yingying's Taoist practice, it is not too difficult to investigate such things. However, Posa Forest is a place where immortals and demons compete with each other. The Jade-level Immortal Lords are the main thugs, and behind them are the immortal kings of both good and evil.

In such a place, Cui Yingying could only stand behind and be a nurse, and wandered around on the front line. If she was caught by the Youying alien race, she would most likely go and meet her master again.

Therefore, Cui Yingying was still mainly cowardly. She wanted to ask Shangguan’s ancestor what he thought. The ancestor was too lazy to pay attention to her, so she stopped asking. She just followed Shangguan Baxue and others and secretly observed clues.

Shangguan Baxue is the new generation of Qingkui. Daoxing is like Zuo Lingquan, and is both half-step jade level, but he has more experience in killing demons and eliminating demons.

Shangguan Baxue said very roughly, but if he could become a Qingkui, how could he be a reckless man who was "no brains"?

After leaving the Dragon King Temple, Shangguan Baxue brought four teammates to the Tuofengling area to investigate and found out that there were many snakes in the Tuofengling area, but there were no other abnormalities.

Last time the monk found that the location where the scholar worshiped the lonely tomb could not be found. Shangguan Baxue simply inferred several locations where the grave might exist based on the secular Feng Shui theory.

The next style of conduct was very iron-clad mansion. Several people showed their magical powers and began to dig around the mountains and fields. Since there were people or demons worshiping them, it means that the tomb has special significance and was excavated, the person behind the scenes would definitely jump out.

Cui Yingying felt that the success rate of this method was worrying, but after waiting in secret for a long time, the thing hidden near Tuofeng Ridge was really dug out by a few naughty green men...—

Along the Sha River, the sunset shines on the river surface, illuminating the river water and the plants on the river bank into golden red.

Three figures walked side by side, observing the surrounding mountains and fields along the way; river crabs, the size of millstone, walked horizontally by the river, with crab claws clamps holding small wooden boxes, Zuo Lingquan also gave it a small bottle of Qingdu River Water Spirit, which is now very peaceful and has become a new mount of Tuanzi.

The dumplings couldn't eat big crabs, and they were indifferent to their interest. They lay on the crab shells with small claws facing the sky, "gugujiji", probably saying good things about Qiutao:

A crab is half a foot long, and the crab shell is larger than a pot; one day it turns over, fennel star anise and fried...

Zuo Lingquan was not here to travel around the mountains and rivers, so naturally he would not have the leisure of Tuanzi. He pressed his hand on the hilt of the sword and looked at some stone walls on the river bank:

"The mountain walls on the river bank are relatively neat, not like they were washed out by water, nor like they were dug by hand..."

"In ancient times, there was probably a big river, or it had a flood; when we passed by that small village just now, there were stone buckles with ropes under the old bridge. It used to be a sword. I guess the dragon walked through this river..."

"There are dragons upstream?"

"Oh, the dragon doesn't go back. If you don't enter the sea, you will not break the realm. If you fail to overcome the tribulation, you will die halfway. There will definitely be no real dragon in the upper reaches, but the river that can transform into dragons must have a dragon in the upper reaches. If there is a monster nest, it is likely to have a connection with the dragon and snake..."

Xie Qiutao carefully analyzed his views and made it reasonable and well-founded. Zuo Lingquan did not treat it as a fool and listened very attentively.

Tang Jingyan did not study these practices deeply and was not easy to interrupt. When he was undecided, he naturally asked about his wife in his heart.

But the ancestor Shangguan is not a god of heaven and earth. He is in charge of the Nine Sects, so he can't know the details of Posa Forum. He didn't respond directly. Tang Jingyan had to turn his attention to Tuantuan, who was lazy:

"Tuanzi, go to the front to explore the way and see where there are monsters, so we can save us from looking for random things."

"grumble."

The dumpling flipped up and pointed it at her feet with its wings, indicating: "Mom, do you think this crab looks like a monster? If it looks like a bird, it will roast it now. The birds eat crab legs, and the others will be filial to my mother..."

Unfortunately, before he finished his nagging, he was looked at by Jingyan, and Tuanzi could only fly out as a reconnaissance plane reluctantly.

The three of them followed the river crab spirit upstream and found that when it was dark, they arrived at a tributary of the Shajiang River, about a hundred miles away from Tuofeng Ridge.

The river crab spirit seemed very afraid of the small river upstream, and became cautious when moving forward. He wandered upstream along the river, entered the deep mountains and forests, and came to a rarely visited pool and pointed to the dark deep pool.

Zuo Lingquan calmed down his breath and came to the edge of the pool. With the silver moonlight, it was obvious that the pool was very deep and living water emerged from it. If nothing unexpected happened, the underground river was connected to the bottom, but there was no sign of demonic energy or spiritual energy in the water.

The river crab spirit stood at the edge of the pool and pointed to the gap below a large stone with crab claws. It should be signaling that this is its hometown, and pointed to the few small sequins stuck in the cracks of the stone.

Xie Qiutao frowned slightly, and used the anti-object technique to pick up the sequins stuck in the cracks of the stone, which were the size of a thumb.

"The types of scales vary. There must be a snake cave under this pool; I guess there are monks from the demon clan practicing there, throwing away the bottle of elixirs and washing them here by water..."

Zuo Lingquan did not question this statement. After taking pills, human monks could not always put the pill box and empty bottle on their body, and sometimes they would throw it away casually. Since the high-level monks of the demon clan could practice and take pills, it was reasonable to leave these practice garbage.

Since he had roughly found the location, Zuo Lingquan wanted to follow the clues and sneak into the nest where the monster was located from the pool.

But he had not made any move yet. The dumplings whistled on the treetops screamed twice, pointing their wings deep into the mountains.

Zuo Lingquan raised his hand and signaled to stop the sound. He felt it carefully and found that there was a fierce aura that covered the sky and the sun in the mountains. It was definitely not emitted by the human monks. Even though he encountered monsters not many times, he could tell that it was monsters in an instant.

Xie Qiutao's face changed slightly, and he took off the iron pipa from behind:

"What a heavy demonic spirit, is it alarming the snake?"

Zuo Lingquan frowned and stared at the deep mountains: "It was not for us, it should be a monster that was alarmed by others..."

"hold head high"

Before he finished speaking, a roar rang out in the deep mountains, the sound was like a dragon roar, and it also brought a ghostly and evil spirit that could terrify people when they heard it.

The river crab spirit, who was already careful, was so scared that he drown into the water and into the cracks of the small stones...—

Rub

The sun had just set, on the shaded slope of Tuofeng Ridge, in a wasteland with bird's eye view of the town at the foot of the mountain. Cheng Jiujiang took a shovel and dug a grave at the selected location.

All five people were digging, and as many as a hundred pits were dug on the hillside. Tuofeng Ridge was near the Seishi Village and Town. Several dead coffins were dug out, but they were all mortal tombs. After nothing unusual, they filled them back.

As for whether digging other people's graves will damage their good deeds, Cheng Jiujiang and others did not have psychological pressure; because according to materialism, people will die and have entered the cycle of reincarnation, and the burial land is buried only the rotten body that has lost its soul, which is no different from the soil, wood, sand and gravel. According to idealism, they dig graves to clear away monsters near towns and ensure that the surrounding people are not affected by monsters. The graves must be buried by the ancestors of the villages and towns. Even if they know them in the spring, how could they hold hatred for them because they interfere with purity?

Cheng Jiujiang didn't remember digging a few graves himself. After digging four feet per inch in the wasteland, the shovel pierced the hard object and made a "clang" sound. Based on the feel of the hand, you know that the coffin below was made of cedar wood and was definitely used by mortals.

Cheng Jiujiang sighed and wanted to backfilling it, but to be on the safe side, he still pulled the soil away and prepared to open the coffin and perform the autopsy.

This behavior completely crossed the bottom line of the person in the dark.

As soon as Cheng Jiujiang made an action, a gust of wind blew on the Tuofeng Ridge, and dark clouds obscured the silver moon that had just emerged.

Shangguan Baxue, Zhao Wuxie and others immediately jumped out of various parts of the mountain when they noticed something was wrong, gathered in one place, and looked up at the top of the Tuofeng Ridge.

Tuofeng Ridge is not high, with only a few old pine trees at the top of the mountain. At this time, a figure appeared among the pine trees.

The figure was wearing a scholar's robe, bare hands and fists, and his face did not have any strange and evil feeling. His eyes were like snake eyes, with three points of coldness, staring at the five people below:

"You are the 'righteous masters'. You are digging the place where the people of the mortal world will sleep in the middle of the night. Don't you feel that you have lost your identity?"

The two sides were about one mile away. Shangguan Baxue couldn't see the depth of this person clearly, but he could tell from his eyes that it was definitely not a human race. Seeing that the other party spoke like a person, he said in a deep voice:

"Where is the sacred place? Let's report the name."

The scholar on the top of the mountain did not hide the murderous thoughts in his eyes, but his tone was very peaceful:

"Xuanye. I was a small snake in the mountain. When I was young, I fell into a snake net and was rescued by an old farmer in the town. When I practiced and achieved enlightenment, the old farmer had died and was buried here, so I often come to worship. If you want to kill demons and eliminate demons, even if you come to me, why do you have to do such dirty things that all the demons are shameful for?"

Cheng Jiujiang frowned, and it was a little bit bad to say it.

Shangguan Baxue had no reaction on his face. He had practiced for so many years and had already understood the nature of the demon clan.

It is not uncommon for monsters to repay their kindness, but this does not mean that they have a good impression of the human race. They are just grateful to one of the people who saved them back then. If there were no human race's snake net, how could this snake monster fall to be rescued by the old farmer? The demon race is generally mainly hating the human race.

The demon clan has names because it is influenced by human culture, but most of the names are related to the bloodline of the body. Shangguan Baxue heard that he called himself Xuanye and his body was a snake, so he roughly guessed that the other party was a mysterious snake who practiced and achieved enlightenment.
To be continued...