Snake Tangled Three Dreams

Chapter 40 The Seal of the Grotto
The banquet of hundreds of tables outside the cave is still under the moon, but the floor is full of mess and it can no longer be seen that this is a festive wedding banquet.

After all the ghosts left, there were many auras outside the gate of the cave. Liu Wangzhi stood tall in the moonlight, and concentrated on identifying the aura left by the mouse spirit after he escaped from the many ghost auras.

"Liu Wangzhi! Come and see here!" With the help of the weak light, I suddenly found a string of dark red blood stains on the ground, ticking and dragging all the way, hidden into the mountains and forests in the northwest direction.

The rat had its tail broken, and it must have had no time to stop the bleeding when it ran away. Maybe this is the blood it left behind.

Hearing the sound, Liu Wangzhi walked towards me, saw the bloodstain and walked a few steps in its direction, then turned to look at me, and stretched out his hand: "Come here, go after him."

If he said that, he should be basically sure that my guess was right.

I nodded, walked towards Liu Wangzhi with big strides, and put my hand into his palm as usual.

Seeing how natural I am, Liu Juan raised his brows slightly, pulled me into his arms, put his arms around my waist and let me cling to him, then led me into a cloud of smoke, looking for the bloodstains His breath chased all the way to the mountains and forests in the northwest.

The wind howls in my ears, the fog is cold, and there is always a breath falling on my forehead, like the twilight of the morning light on the willow branches in early spring, and the warm spring breeze passes through the willow branches, carrying the fragrance of grass and trees.

My forehead was itched by his breathing, and with a slight movement, the skin between my brows brushed against the soft thin lips, and the touch... was like a light white feather had fallen.

My face felt hot for no reason, and I shrunk my neck back uncomfortably. Suddenly, someone rubbed my waist gently.

"Hiss... what are you doing!" I raised my knee and touched the person who was hugging me.

"Don't move around." Liu Wangzhi's deep and mellow voice fell in my ears, "You are so squirming, I almost don't have the heart to find Mr. Qian Lin."

I was taken aback for a moment, and immediately understood the meaning of his words. I cursed a bad snake in my heart, and closed my eyes obediently, not daring to move any more.

After flying for a while, Liu Juanzhi suddenly stopped, maintaining the state of floating in the air, not falling down.

"What's wrong?" I pressed my face against his chest, surrounded by clouds and mists, and couldn't see what was going on below.

Liu Wangzhi's eyes slowly turned downwards, and he frowned and said: "The breath has disappeared."

"So suddenly?" I was slightly taken aback, and asked again, "Where can he hide?"

I poked my head out of his arms and glanced down, Liu Wangzhi also began to fall slowly, and said to me: "No, he should have entered Lord Qianlin's hiding place, and he has hidden his breath together."

It is impossible for the mouse essence to evaporate suddenly, it seems that Mr. Qian Lin is right around here.

As the clouds cleared and the fog cleared, we fell into a deserted forest sandwiched between two mountains, with yellowstone black soil everywhere, and crooked dead trees left after being burned.

The sky has revealed a little light, the desolate scorched forest is submerged in the shadow of the mountain wall, and the chirping of night crows echoes to the distance, desolate and terrifying.

"I didn't expect there to be such a place in the back mountain. How could such a good forest be burned like this..." Liu Wangzhi and I walked forward side by side, passing a broken log hanging on one side, and the crows on the tree fluttered in fright. .

A few crow feathers fell from the black robe on Liu Juzhi's body, he raised his sleeve and brushed it away, his face was expressionless, "This forest is hidden in the barrier, completely protected from rain, but the burning smell in the air is already very faint , which means that the fire has passed for many years."

Because of the influence of the enchantment, this piece of land that is not moistened by rain has been dry for a long time. The roots of the trees broke free from the cracked loess and exposed to the outside.

I don't understand, isn't Mr. Qianlin the master of this forest? There are so many lush and lush forests, why did he choose a scorched forest where not a single blade of grass grows as his hiding place?
The looming smell of charcoal filled my nostrils. I didn’t sleep all night, breathing the overly dry air, looking at the endless barren forest in front of me, I suddenly felt a little dizzy and tired, so I patted my face and bent my elbow to touch it. Touching Liu Wangzhi, "How is it, have you sensed the breath of Lord Qianlin?"

Liu Wangzhi didn't lead me around aimlessly, his eyes kept falling on a certain place in front of the left side, as if he was chasing something.

"Did you notice the cracks?" he asked quietly.

I rubbed my sleepy eyes, gathered my energy and looked in the direction he indicated. I saw scar-like fissures crawling all over the ground like snakes. .

Generally speaking, the cracks spread outward from the core of the vibration. I pointed to the messy pile of boulders, and my voice raised slightly, "Could it be...in the pile of stones?"

"Go and have a look first." Liu Juanzhi suddenly took my hand, "Don't get sleepy, follow me closely."

"……Um."

How did he know I was sleepy?While thinking about it, I twisted my thigh hard. It hurts, but I am much more awake.

This pile of rocks is as tall as a person. At first glance, it looks disorganized, but when you get closer, you can see that they are stacked one on top of the other, forming a rough circle. Looking in through the cracks in the rocks, you can see a clearing in the middle. It just sticks to the stone wall on one side of the mountain.

"You are small, so look in this direction with your head." Liu Wangzhi found a thin stone crevice, the height just reached my chest.

I glanced at the two-palm-wide gap, and put my hand on the stone, "I really appreciate you just letting me peek in, instead of letting me go through it."

Liu Wangzhi paused, his eyes swept over me, and fell on the collar that slipped off as I bent down, folded his arms and slightly raised his brows: "Don't think about it, you will definitely not make it through."

"...?" I turned my head to look at him, only then did I realize where his gaze was staring at, my ears felt hot, and I glared at him in embarrassment, "Liu, Huang, Zhi!"

Liu Wangzhi's face sculpted like beautiful jade was unmoved, as if he wasn't the one who became the apprentice.

He opened his thin lips slightly and was about to speak, when there was a slight "rustling" sound from nowhere, Liu Wangzhi's eyes suddenly changed slightly, and he came over and grabbed me into his arms, protecting the back of my head with his palms and holding me I pressed it against his chest, then jumped up on my toes, and instantly took me away from the low rock pile by riding the wind and clouds.

The moment we left, the mountains on both sides "rumbled" and shook, and countless large and small stones wrapped in sand fell from a height, hitting the ground to startle the dust, and completely buried the place we stayed just now.

"My God...it's too dangerous." I leaned on Liu Wangzhi's chest, grasped his lapel with both hands and sucked in a breath of cold air, my heart was still in shock.

Liu Wangzhi's face was frosty, and a pair of piercing peach blossom eyes coldly stared at the piles of rocks: "It's him, Lord Qianlin is right there."

After finishing speaking, he hugged me back to the ground again, pinched his sword with one hand to set up the protective barrier.

"Back." Liu Juanzhi raised his hand and spread out his palm, a golden light cluster of spiritual power gathered in his hand and grew bigger and bigger.

I quickly stepped back three steps, a bright light flashed in front of me, and with a "bang", the pile of rocks collapsed and shattered.

"Cough, cough..." I covered my mouth and nose, raised my hand and waved away the fine dust in front of me, and when my eyes cleared, I suddenly saw a grotto at the bottom of the mountain covered by the pile of stones!
Two half-person-high stone statues of Pixiu stand guard inside, one on the left and the other on the right. Through the stone statues, you can see the stone wall behind. Countless incomprehensible ancient characters are written in cinnabar ink. Flowing through, like flowing ripples.

"What's that?" I looked at the red letters on the wall, not daring to approach the grotto.

Liu Wangzhi's handsome eyebrows, which flew obliquely into his temples, slightly frowned, walked towards the grotto with his long legs, stopped outside the door, the large sleeves of his robe brushed into the cave, and the red letters on the wall immediately floated with the wind of the swept sleeves A dazzling golden light!

I was afraid that Liu Wangzhi would continue to approach, so I quickly grabbed his sleeve, "Don't go any further, I don't even know what is on the wall."

"It's okay." Liu Wangzhi looked up at the stone wall, calmly, "This is a seal. It seems that this Lord Qianlin is sealed in this mountain."

(End of this chapter)