As soon as the hole appeared and was exposed to the moonlight, everyone was stunned for a moment, as if Liu Banxian had performed a magic trick that transformed a human being into a living person in front of them, which made people feel surprised and inexplicable.
The entrance is about the height of a person from the bottom to the ground, and is not very deep.
Ren Qi walked to the front and was in no hurry to enter.
Instead, he threw the torch in his hand into the hole.
The torch fell to the ground and spattered many sparks. It showed no sign of extinguishing and was still burning.
After observing for a while, Ren Qicai turned to Yin Xiu and said, "There shouldn't be any problem inside, or should I get off first as usual?"
"You go first, then me."
Liu Banxian will be walking behind Ren Qi this time, at the front of the team, which is different from before.
"I want to determine the direction."
He shook the compass in his hand and said, "There are many twists and turns underground. If you go wrong, you will be in trouble."
"That's true."
Yin Xiu looked at Hai Dongqing again, "Then you go in the middle and protect Liu Banxian."
Hai Dongqing didn't know that Yin Xiu was actually taking care of him. With so many masters present, how could he be needed to protect Liu Banxian.
But now is not the time to dwell on this, so Hai Dongqing just nodded and said nothing more.
In this case, Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu stayed at the back, responsible for guarding the back of the team and holding down the formation.
Ren Qi extinguished the torch, then took a piece of luminous fluorite from Yin Xiu's hand, held it in his hand for illumination, then took off a sword and tied it to his waist, with his other hand hanging nearby, and followed The frequency of walking and dangling around the hilt of the sword clearly indicates that he is on alert.
Hai Dongqing and Yin Xiu each held a piece of fluorite, and the fluorite in their hands was enough to illuminate the ground around the entire queue.
Ren Qi walked in front, hunched over for a while, and his eyes suddenly became brighter.
In fact, even though it was a sudden enlightenment, it was still a tunnel, just as dark.
However, this section of the road is not as tight and narrow as before. Instead, a tall person like Ren Qi can straighten his waist and move forward calmly without feeling any pressure on his head.
"I was born in a fairy cave, with infinite scenery on the dangerous peak!"
Liu Banxian uttered an unrelated poem at random, and while running his hand across the cave wall, he felt a wet, cool touch on his palm, which was completely different from the humidity in the world of eternity.
If the humidity in the Infernal World has a sticky feeling caused by mold and lack of ventilation, the humidity here has a rich spiritual energy that turns into water vapor and water flow, which makes people feel like they are hitting their faces. A moist feeling.
"Miss Ma, most of the spiritual energy of the Changbai Mountains, Feng Shui treasure caves, and all the spiritual energy of the big and small dragon veins are gathered here. If you practice here, you will get twice the result with half the effort."
"Well, practicing here is indeed very beneficial."
Ma Xiaoyu nodded lightly, "But our Maoshan family are all Taoist priests, not Qigong practitioners. Even if we practice, we still practice spells and rituals. It is rare to practice the so-called cultivation.
Because we do not aim to become immortals and take different paths, this is actually a good paradise for Maoshan Taoist priests, but it is nothing more than that. In the eyes of those Qi refiners, this is the place. A true treasure. ”
"Same."
Liu Banxian deeply agreed, "Whether you are cultivating to enter the world or to cultivate to transcend the world, each has its own choices and difficulties. As long as you don't put your mind in the wrong place, your merits will be complete."
“But isn’t the most difficult thing about practicing spiritual practice just to follow the right path?”
Ma Xiaoyu smiled, "Otherwise, there wouldn't have been so many days of thunder and lightning, and I would have practiced evil and evil practices that are not tolerated by the Six Paths."
"That's right, even if they don't practice Taoism, there are still some people who have studied books and practiced martial arts but don't do anything serious and only do harm to others."
Liu Banxian was sighing when he bumped into Ren Qi who was stopped in front of him.
"What's wrong, Brother Master?" Liu Banxian rubbed his nose.
"I encountered a fork in the road, which way to go?" Ren Qi asked.
"Fork in the road? Where did it come from?"
Liu Banxian couldn't help but feel strange.
Although he was chatting with Ma Xiaoyu just now, he was very sure that his eyes had not left the road ahead for too long.
Before he turned back, there was no fork in the road.
"It really does."
Hai Dongqing also shouted, "Two identical roads lead to the left and right."
He said this, and when he was about to step forward, Yin Xiu held his shoulders, preventing him from taking a step forward.
Liu Banxian also turned serious, took a step forward and blocked Ren Qi.
Ma Xiaoyu took out the talisman paper from his pocket and held the ruler in his other hand. The red, yellow and green light circles lit up.
The reactions of the three of them were obviously completely different from those of Ren Qi and Hai Dongqing.
Because at this time, in the eyes of Yin Xiu and the other three practitioners of Xuanmen, there was no fork in the road in front of them. There was only a straight path from beginning to end, extending from in front of them into the darkness in the distance.
There is no second way.
"It's evil."
Liu Banxian twitched his nose and added: "Maybe it's a ghost hitting the wall."
Yin Xiu thoughtfully said, "If the ghost hits the wall, I remember to put my underwear on my head so that I can walk out, otherwise I will just be spinning around in circles."
When Liu Banxian heard this, he stretched out his hand.
"What?"
"Lend me one, you know, I never wear it."
"Fuck you, how did I know about this kind of thing?" Yin Xiu yelled.
"Okay, it's been a long time and I'm still joking."
Ma Xiaoyu sighed, feeling that these two people were very reliable when they were separated, but if they came together, no matter when, it would only make the already bad situation worse.
She took the talisman back and took out the compass.
I saw that the pointer on the compass was swinging around, turning clockwise for a while, and sliding counterclockwise for a while.
Liu Banxian finally became serious, came over to take a look, and couldn't help but clicked his tongue.
"It's really weird. I can't see a trace of Yin Qi from the front of my eyes. I just think it's very ordinary."
But the reactions of Ren Qi and Hai Dongqing cannot be deceiving.
The two of them are not members of Xuanmen, so they are completely defenseless in the face of certain powers and illusions, and can easily fall into traps.
This kind of trap may not be fatal, but it will turn them into Sun Wukong in the palm of Buddha, making it difficult to escape the illusion.
And now, knowing that there is something weird ahead, Yin Xiu and the others will certainly not act rashly, lest someone accidentally break into a certain restriction, barrier, or some unexplainable space.
When he was in Weijiagou before, the reason why Yin Xiu dared to take such a step forward without fear was because Liu Banxian had actually done enough analysis and explained all the intelligence and analysis he had obtained. Yin Xiu and Ma Xiaoyu had the confidence in their hearts, so they did what seemed like a death move.
However, the situation this time was different. In this narrow, dark tunnel, they did not have that much information.
It is precisely because this place is so small that if any changes occur, they may not have anywhere to run. "Is it a ghost hitting the wall?" Liu Banxian asked.
"Probably not."
Ma Xiaoyu put away the two grapefruit leaves he had just taken out, "What kind of ghost is so powerful that he can hide himself so deeply?"
"Is that a barrier or a magic circle?"
"It's not like that either." She still shook her head.
Liu Banxian had goosebumps on his neck, "Is it possible that he is the mountain god or the owner of the underground palace?"
"How about I shoot an arrow in front?" Hai Dongqing said suddenly.
"Archery?" Liu Banxian's eyes widened.
"That's right, it's archery."
Hai Dongqing looked serious, "I've heard that some hunters sometimes get lost in the mountains and can't get out no matter how hard they walk. Even if they leave a mark on the spot and walk around, they think they finally get out. When the time comes, you will return to the place where you left the mark.
At this time, they will use arrows stained with animal blood to shoot an arrow forward.
What the spirits in the mountains fear most is hearing the sound of bows and arrows clanging, and because there is blood on the arrows, they think they are coming towards them, and they no longer care about playing and teasing the hunters, but run away. It is no longer possible to make a hunter lose his way. ”
Hai Dongqing said as he took out an arrow with dark red feathers from his quiver. It was obviously stained with animal blood as he said.
Anyway, he couldn't think of any other way at the moment, so Yin Xiu nodded and motioned to Hai Dongqing to try it.
So Hai Dongqing stood in front, put the arrow on the string, straightened his thighs, stretched his back, held the bow in front of him, and opened the string with his back hand.
Bang!
Sure enough, there was an explosion like thunder, and the feather arrow flew out from Hai Dongqing's fingertips in a spinning direction, and soon turned into a meteor and penetrated into the darkness ahead.
call out!
Ma Xiaoyu didn't look back. She reached behind her and grabbed it. When she pulled it back, she had already grasped an arrow lightly on her sharp-knuckled fingers.
"Is it yours?"
She handed the arrow back to Hai Dongqing.
Beads of sweat suddenly appeared on Hai Dongqing's forehead. He held the arrow in his hand and inspected it repeatedly with his eyes wide open.
Whether it was the arrow feathers pasted on the tail or the dark red color on the arrowhead, it was clear that this arrow was the one Hai Dongqing shot just now.
"So fast." Yin Xiu couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Although he didn't have much hope for Hai Dongqing's arrow, it came back in a completely strange way, which Yin Xiu was completely unexpected by.
After realizing that the situation was complicated and that it might not be something that could be solved with ordinary spells or magical attacks, he looked at Liu Banxian who was in a daze, hoping that this "extraordinary expert" could come up with some clever ideas.
"Liu Banxian, use your invincible Liu family's feng shui skills to think of a solution!"
When Liu Banxian was shouted out by Yin Xiu, he reacted belatedly, took out a booklet from his pocket, and started flipping through it under the light of fluorite.
Just when Yin Xiu thought that Liu Banxian was cramming like him and was reading something similar to the "Monster Catching Manual", Liu Banxian quickly stopped his finger on one of the pages.
"What time is it now?" he asked.
Yin Xiu opened the pocket watch and took a look.
"Ten thirty, Haishi."
"Well, Haishi."
Liu Banxian responded and moved his finger to one of the lines.
"How many people are we now?"
"You don't know how many people there are..."
When Hai Dongqing was about to answer, Ma Xiaoyu gently covered her mouth, making her unable to speak the next words.
"It's five people." Yin Xiu continued to answer.
"Five people? No."
Liu Banxian shook his head and continued to flip the book, "What time is it now?"
Yin Xiu glanced at her pocket watch again and said calmly: "Ten thirty, Hai Shi."
"Well, Haishi."
Liu Banxian started flipping through the book again.
At this time, even Ren Qi had understood, and the two of them were having some kind of ritual response.
It seemed like there was an ordinary question and answer between them, as if they met a passerby on the road and asked him the time.
But in fact, there is a complex and mysterious ritual hidden in it. They seem to be "deducing" certain situations that they were not clear about before and did not understand at all.
Sure enough, next, Liu Banxian asked as before: "How many people are we now?"
Yin Xiu did not answer first this time, but glanced at Ma Xiaoyu first.
She was clasping her hands behind her back with a serious expression, but her eyes were blinking. While observing the ritual, she was also waiting for Yin Xiu's answer.
Ma Xiaoyu understood that what Liu Banxian was holding was not an ordinary book, but a wordless destiny book.
Although he was gesticulating with his hands, there was actually nothing written or drawn on the book. From beginning to end, Liu Banxian's fingers were just flipping and scratching on the blank pages.
This is a mysterious, even terrifying, crazy deduction. A deviation may lead to something that does not originally exist here, or even create it out of thin air.
That thing will appear out of thin air, not because the two have the same divine power as the savior, but because they "believe" in this deduction.
If you are sincere, you will be spiritual. As long as you believe, it will definitely exist and even appear.
"How many people are we now?"
Knowing that she had to answer, Yin Xiu took a deep breath and replied: "It's six people."
"Six people? By the way..."
Liu Banxian continued flipping the book, "Who are they?"
Yin Xiu paused and replied: "Two Taoist priests, one is a gentleman, one is a swordsman, one is an Orion, one..."
Feeling something in her heart, Ma Xiaoyu suddenly gently held Yin Xiu's finger, and both felt the warmth from the other's fingertips.
"An immortal." The two said in unison.
"That's it, that's it."
Liu Banxian closed the book and remained silent.
The "deduction" has ended, and some unknown, unclear, and perhaps non-existent things have surfaced in the questions and answers between the two.
Several people suddenly fell into silence, and even the light emitted from the fluorite seemed to dim, making the shadows of several people grow longer.
At the intersection of several people's shadows, another shadow emerged, shaking a few times on the rock wall, like ink falling into water, causing ripples. (End of chapter)