Folk custom: At the beginning of the wedding, the bride takes off her painted skin

There was no way forward in the sealed corridor. Taoist Tan Xiaotan held a torch and looked around the stone wall, and he immediately saw it.

There is a secret door here.

The only way to get past this is to find the mechanism.

Taoist priest Tan was very good at this kind of thing. He first looked at the stone walls on both sides of the secret door. Whenever there is a secret door, no matter how exquisite the craftsman is, there will be traces left behind.

Otherwise, this mechanism cannot be activated at all.

After looking around twice to make sure that the mechanism was not on the wall, he looked down at the ground again.

Sure enough, after just a few glances, he found that the gap in one stone brick was obviously larger than the other gaps around it.

He squatted down and pressed it first, but there was no reaction at all.

To show that this was not a press-type mechanism, he pulled out a dagger from his waist, inserted it into the crack of the brick and picked it open, which was how he opened the stone brick.

What was immediately revealed was a gear that could rotate.

He looked around again, and after making sure there were no other mechanisms, he... tied a rope to the gear, and then took a few dozen steps back.

Immediately, he pulled hard, the gear rotated, and the secret door was opened.

No wonder he is like this.

This is indeed a mechanism. If the designer of this tomb is evil, this mechanism is not only not the mechanism to open the secret door, but another assassination-style mechanism. Once triggered, several hidden arrows will be shot out in all directions.

That's it.

Now that Brother Daoxuan is away, the life and death of Shi Ji, the only one with fighting ability, is still uncertain, so he can't help but talk and laugh carelessly.

After all, no matter how many tricks he has, and he comes from a middle-class world, he still has to be cowardly when it's time to be cowardly.

When he got close, he put away the hemp rope, held the torch and walked out of the secret door.

But as soon as he walked out, his eyes suddenly opened up. It was no longer a narrow dark room, nor a cramped tomb passage, but an extremely wide and empty cave. No matter whether he was looking forward or looking up, he could not see the edge of the empty cave.

It's not even a cave anymore.

He held the torch and couldn't see anything else nearby, but there was an endless stone wall behind him.

He could only try to look forward to see if there was another passage ahead.

The ground was also full of rocks. He walked about dozens of meters and couldn't even see the stone wall behind him, nor anything else.

The torches only illuminated a small part of the place, and the rest was shrouded in darkness.

Tanxiao realized that he couldn't continue like this, so he took out the compass from the pouch on his back, shook it slightly, and determined the direction.

The place he came from was the west, so he turned around and tried to go north.

After walking for a while, the rocks became smaller.

There is a play!

After walking about twenty or thirty meters, within the scope of the firelight, I finally saw the stone wall again.

After having a reference, Tanxiao relaxed a little.

"Ok?"

"wrong?!"

He discovered something strange under the stone wall. There were scattered pieces of wood, most of which had been broken into pieces.

Of course, what really caught his eye and made him feel weird was the thing.

These pieces of rotten wood were all fresh, and all the broken cracks were fresh, indicating that they had just broken apart. He tried to kick a few pieces away and take a look.

There were no obvious marks between the wood and the ground, which showed that these pieces of wood were not only recently broken, but had even just fallen off.

Is there... someone up there?
Or did some other creature cause the boards to fall from above?

After talking and listening for a while, he finally heard another sound... the sound of water, like the sound of a waterfall.

But it's far away, and if you don't listen carefully, you won't hear it clearly.

No, there was also a little other sound mixed in, the sound of scales rubbing against stones!
Damn!

It's those damn grave-guarding snakes again!

Even though he hadn't seen it yet, he was already talking and laughing. He waved the torch in his hand and finally saw one on the stone wall in front of him... It couldn't be said to be a strip, but one!
A giant blood-scale python that was probably as thick as a human waist was slowly crawling over the stone wall.

It was swallowing snake letters that were as thick as a human finger, and its only single eye was also a horizontal eye, turning left and right to look at Tanxiao.

Without saying a word, the old Taoist priest grabbed some realgar powder and threw it on himself.

He immediately turned around and ran away.

He originally thought that since he used the realgar powder at such a close range, the blood python would not dare to catch up, but he was still wrong.

This bit of realgar powder seemed to arouse the ferocity of the blood python. It leaned forward and came down from the stone wall. It made a series of noises and chased after Tan Taoist.

Tanxiao also knows that there are two rules for escaping when being chased by a snake.

The first is to find a place that goes uphill, because snakes go uphill slowly and will not be able to catch up with people.

But there are no uphill places around here. If this rule doesn't work, then the next one is. When being chased by a snake, you can't go in a straight line, you have to go in a curve.

But that only applies to small snakes. This bloody python, which is almost as big as a human, can walk in a curve?

Before I even start to sing, this thing will catch up with me!

Talking and laughing, we can only follow the way we came, hoping to get back to the tomb passage as soon as possible.

The tomb passage was so narrow that it would be impossible for a body as big as the blood python to enter. Only when he got there could he possibly escape.

But when we came, we headed east first, then north, and walked dozens of meters in front and back. It was at least a hundred meters back from here to the entrance of the cave.

Tanxiao estimated that he might have been overtaken by the blood python before he even reached the entrance of the tomb alive.

In fact, this was exactly the case. There was a sudden tightening behind Tanxiao, and he rolled to the side out of nowhere.

And where he was just standing, the bloody mouth of the blood python had already penetrated.

If he had reacted a little slower, he would have been swallowed by the blood python in one bite.

At least the head can be swallowed by it.

Tanxiao, who was lying on the ground, quickly got up, turned around and ran away, not daring to stop at all. He was also thinking about countermeasures. If he continued running like this, it would be almost like a chronic suicide.

Among the things I carry with me, only realgar powder can deal with it.

But before I came here, I didn't know there were so many snakes here, and I didn't prepare much. Even if I spread all the snakes on me, it wouldn't be enough.

Of course, if he was given enough time to talk and laugh, he could still make the blood python leave by using his own blood, supplemented by realgar powder to draw the talisman.

But the problem now is that there is not so much time.

After running along the original path for a while, Tanxiao saw the stone wall again. Now that there was no way ahead, it was really difficult.

In a hurry, the sixth sense warned again. The blood python was catching up, and it was still behind him. It might be successful with one blow.

They were talking and laughing without even looking at each other, so they had no choice but to stick the torch behind them.
He could clearly feel that his torch was being hindered, which meant that the torch had really been thrust into the blood python's mouth.

He jumped to the side and turned around to look.

The blood python's open mouth did indeed bite the torch, and the originally burning torch now shook its head in a burning craziness.

But it had no intention of letting go. It kept swallowing and swallowing, and finally took a mouthful.

He swallowed the torch directly.

The last bit of light went out, and the surrounding area fell into deathly darkness.

Tanxia took a few steps back, tripped and fell to the ground, his butt still hurting from the sharp stones.

But none of these could offset the chaos in his heart.

Because this time, he really felt the threat of death.

Just like when I was traveling around the middle and ninth-tier worlds and traveling around the world, if I make a single mistake, I will be doomed.

The same is true now.

Although this is a dream and he is a reincarnated person, the Evil Suppression Tower will not care about this.

When it's time to die, everyone must die.

Perhaps because of the approaching death, Tanxiao was even ready to use the Broken Tower Heart to leave.

But at this moment, he seemed to hear a sound breaking through the air, followed by a crisp "ding" sound like the collision of gold and stone.

Then there was a sound like flesh and blood being cut apart.

Something happened, so he crawled back without saying a word, crawling on his hands and feet, hoping to go faster. But then, he suddenly felt as if his chest had been hit hard by a huge whip.

It's the tail of this blood python!

Tanxiao was immediately kicked out, and he fell to the ground with severe pain in his chest. He hit the stone wall and a mouthful of blood spurted out, almost killing him.

But fortunately, he is not dead!

He struggled to get up and leaned his upper body against the stone wall. Fire gradually appeared in front of him, and someone ran over holding a torch.

But when he tried his best to see clearly who the person opposite was, he found a right hand stretched out in front of him.

Someone has arrived.

He subconsciously looked up and saw a familiar face with a smile that was uglier than crying.

"Brother Daoxuan, Xiaodao, I almost didn't see you."

Li Daoxuan stopped the conversation and said bluntly: "They are all people with broken hearts, so why are they pretending?" "Uh..."

The sensational words were unsuccessful, and the conversation and laughter were a little awkward, but through the light of the man behind him, he also saw that Li Daoxuan's body was covered with dust, and even scratched in many places, with blood oozing faintly from it.

It seems that Li Daoxuan also suffered a lot in this tomb... Tanxiao looked at the person walking behind him again.

She is a woman, and very beautiful.

"Are you... the evil spirit who follows Brother Daoxuan?"

"I'm human now!"

Zhou Yaya seems to care about her identity very much.

Li Daoxuan looked at the ground and at the blood python he had just killed. Since entering the tomb, this was not the largest python he had encountered, but it was indeed the largest python he had ever killed. .

If this thing hadn't been attracted by the conversation and laughter, he wouldn't have succeeded in the sneak attack so quickly.

It's just that the giant python that was chasing him on the pontoon above seemed to have turned into a dragon. Li Daoxuan clearly saw it falling down, but he didn't see it, and he didn't know why.

It's like...it disappeared halfway through the sky.

But how is this possible?

Even if it wasn't, it wouldn't be able to hold on to the stone wall with such a big body.

"Brother Daoxuan, what's going on with you?" After the conversation and laughter slowed down for a while, and he felt a little better, he asked curiously.

Immediately, the three of them found a slightly cleaner place and started chatting, telling each other about their experiences.

When Li Daoxuan talked about seeing the giant python that looked like a dragon in the underground river after entering the cave, Tanxiao immediately said that he had seen it too.

That snake is definitely extremely difficult to deal with, and even Li Daoxuan may not be able to take it down.

"Brother Daoxuan, what you mean is that there is a floating bridge up here? Is that where you came from?"

"Yes, the stone man you saw is a magic puppet, a means of the Zhongjiu Liu... This ancient Lou country is from the Zhongjiu Liu, Pindao will tell you later."

Li Daoxuan nodded and continued: "Fortunately, there were those iron bars in the way. The pontoon did not fall very fast. Yaya and I grabbed the iron chain and climbed up in the direction we came from. We were lucky enough to escape. "Jie."

"It's just that the giant python didn't fall down, which I don't quite understand."

Zhou Yaya added: "What I suspect is that the giant python has grown legs. When it fell, it grabbed the stone wall with its feet and prevented it from falling, but Li Daoxuan didn't believe it."

"What do you think, Taoist Master?" Zhou Yaya asked.

Tanxiao first looked at the expressions of Li Daoxuan and Zhou Yaya, and then said: "Pindao thinks that what you two said makes sense."

After saying this, he continued: "I guess that the tomb-guarding snake must have some kind of supernatural power."

"Miraculous? What supernatural?" Li Daoxuan didn't quite understand.

Tanxiao said slowly: "Big or small."

"Big or small? What the Taoist priest means is, can the snake become bigger or smaller on its own?"

"Correct."

After hearing what he said, Li Daoxuan silently raised his head and raised his middle finger towards the endless darkness.

Needless to say, in this world where everyone is just ordinary people, it is really fucking disgusting for this weapon spirit to create such a thing.

Tanxiao understood what Li Daoxuan meant.

Zhou Yaya was asking him what he was doing.

Li Daoxuan said without changing his expression and his heart not beating: "I'm praising how awesome this weapon spirit is."

Although I can go around the corner to enjoy my life, there is obviously no other way now. The matter has come to this and I can only continue.

"Where are you, Taoist Master? Why are you here alone?"

After Li Daoxuan asked, Tanxiao's expression became a little ugly.

"Pindao didn't come alone. He came with me, Shi Ji."

"Stone table?"

"You were assigned to the same town as him?"

"Correct."

"What about others now?" Li Daoxuan was somewhat different. "At this level, he probably doesn't have the ability to be an immortal, right?"

"No...so something happened to him, but it's Pindao's fault."

Then he talked and laughed and told everything about the two people's journey along the way, as well as the secrets of Lou Gu country that he knew.

After listening to this, Li Daoxuan sighed in his heart that it was a good thing he met Taoist Tan, otherwise he really wouldn't know these things.

Then he sorted out what he had said during the conversation before speaking.

"Judging from the experiences of our two groups, we can basically conclude that there must be someone else in this tomb, the tomb-guarding clan."

"They have mastered all the information about the tomb. They can even control the magic puppets you mentioned, Taoist Master. Even these tomb-guarding snakes can be controlled by them."

"So if we want to gain something from this tomb...it's still quite difficult."

Tanxiao then said: "If Pindao and Brother Daoxuan can't win it together, then no one will be able to pass this third floor."

"You'll be putting money on your face." Zhou Yaya rolled her eyes.

"Okay, let's get down to business."

Li Daoxuan clasped his hands and attracted the attention of the two people.

"We came from the underground river over there, which means the road is not over there. Mr. Tan, you came from the opposite side of us, so the road can only be in the open space in the middle."

Li Daoxuan said, turning to look at the cave of unknown size, "Look for it, there is always another way."

After chatting and laughing, he said: "Actually, the road may be on the other side."

"Huh? What do you say?"

Then they talked and laughed and told him about the bifurcation of the snake path he met when he came here, "At that time, there was only one person on Pindao, and he didn't dare to risk entering the snake path, so he came here to take a look. of."

"Brother Daoxuan is here now. We can go over there and have a look."

"also."

Immediately, the three of them were here again, searching along the stone wall, and finally found the cave entrance where they started talking and laughing.

"Wait a minute, I'll draw a talisman first... Do you still have the realgar powder you brought?"

"Mine is all wet, and Yaya still has some."

Then, right here, Tanxiao first used a mechanism to close the secret door, then took the blood of three people, supplemented it with realgar powder, and drew two talismans for each of them.

"Put one on the chest and one on the back. Even if it encounters the giant python that is about to turn into a dragon, it will not dare to approach immediately."

"Walk."

As they were talking and laughing, Li Daoxuan acted without any inhibitions. He seemed to mention it casually while walking.

"The Taoist priest is from Shanshui City outside?"

"Exactly." Tanxiao said with a smile as he walked.

"Oh, you know that I am the city lord of Hand Witch City...if the city is still there."

Li Daoxuan didn't know how long he had been in the Evil Suppression Tower, and whether Qiu Wuming had kept his promise to help him protect Hand Witch City.

Tanxiao said with a smile: "Brother Daoxuan might as well ask the question at the beginning again."

Li Daoxuan thought about it for a moment, and then said: "The Taoist priest is from Shanshui City outside?"

"No, Pindao is from Shouwu City."

Li Daoxuan immediately understood what he meant. This Taoist priest is still one of his own after all!

Coupled with the existing Fang Jie, Bai Jun, Zhou Xu... and Tanxiao and Zhou Yaya around me, big things can happen!

It's just that Fang Jie's strength is still a little bit behind. Even if he gets the inheritance, he still doesn't know if his strength is any stronger.

The three of them walked quickly and returned to the fork in the road they talked about.

Looking at the tomb passage opposite which was extremely smooth rubbed by snake scales, even Li Daoxuan could not help but be a little surprised.

"This snake... must be so big, tsk tsk."

After speaking, he touched the wrist of his left hand with his right hand, and a wooden bead turned into an almanac flipped up and fell down. Immediately, a message appeared in Li Daoxuan's mind.

"lucky."

"This is the right way, let's go."

While talking and laughing, he glanced at the string of beads a few more times and murmured in his heart. It seemed that Li Daoxuan was quite favored by the spirit of this weapon.

After all, this almanac is a treasure, but whether it can be used on the third level depends on the spirit of the weapon.

Walking through this brand new tomb passage, there is no other feeling, the only feeling is the fishy smell.

The stench was almost suffocating, and Li Daoxuan was forced to hold his breath every once in a while, otherwise he wouldn't be able to hold it in anymore. He couldn't hold it in at all.

But fortunately, this tomb passage is not long, only about thirty meters.

When he rushed out of the tomb passage again, he even had a feeling.

Have you arrived at... the main tomb? (End of chapter)