The autumn rain has not stopped for several days, and the old iron chain bridges sway in the wind and rain on the Tuolong River where the river roars.

Three figures dressed in casual cultivators walked on the bridge board with hats; the plump cultivator behind was holding a white ball of hair in his arms, and the girl in front was carrying a black iron pipa, talking to each other:

"After crossing the bridge, I'm here. I've been here before. I learned the craftsmanship of prospecting and gold catching here, but unfortunately I didn't find anything good..."

"Qiaotao, you came across the ocean from Beisashizhou. You have been to all the major immortal gates. You know many experts, such as playing music, chess, calligraphy and painting, exploration and feng shui, and telling and tasting wine and tea. You can also go to Yuyaozhou and take a walk from south to north..."

"Yes, I didn't brag..."

"I didn't say you brag, you said the year before yesterday that you were sixteen..."

"Uh... I remember it early~ I crossed the sea at the age of three, went to Juejianxian Sect to observe the sword immortals and discuss swords. At the age of five, I went to the Taoist ancestral home to listen to the head sect discuss the Tao..."

Xie Qiutao calculated carefully with his fingers, but found that he still couldn't finish it. His round face froze and began to count by month again...

Zuo Lingquan walked between the two, shook his head and smiled secretly, and did not tease Taotao. After all, in his eyes, Qiutao will always be a 16-year-old pink girl, and there is nothing wrong with it.

Listening to the two of them chatting, Zuo Lingquan's eyes set on the other end of the iron chain bridge.

A few days ago, in the Yushuwan villa courtyard, the ancestor suddenly came to send a message, saying that the Lord Taohua asked him to come to Huanggutan, saying that there was something unusual here.

As soon as they met again, they had to embark on the road of cultivation again. Jiang Yi and Qingwan were naturally reluctant to leave, but because they had to accompany Lingye to continue visiting the Immortal Sect, they could not follow him, so they could only hold him and say a feast all night.

During this period, Qingwan asked him to come back early and said she wanted to give him a surprise; Jiang Yi was afraid that he would be half a year after he left, so she even gritted her teeth and agreed, saying, "Is my aunt Lingye able to do it, I can't do it? Isn't it just the tail..."

Such a fantastic promise was heard, Zuo Lingquan naturally returned home like an arrow, and ran over quickly, thinking about a quick battle and finishing the matter.

But the Peach Blossom Lord is not reliable at all.

He asked the ancestor to tell the story that there was something unusual about Huanggutan, but there was no prompt. He didn't even know what he came over to do.

Zuo Lingquan followed the usual methods and investigated at the nearby gathering place of casual cultivators. He only heard that Huanggutan was not very safe in recent days and had nothing else to find.

For this reason, Zuo Lingquan could only take two girls directly to Huanggutan to check on the spot.

Although Huanggutan is a barren land, there are not many small cultivators who come to dig ore on weekdays. People on the east side of the Tuolong River, if they can't control the wind and swords, they have to pass by this old iron chain bridge.

At this time, dozens of small casual cultivators in different clothes were surrounded by the other end of the iron chain bridge, both men and women, carrying a pole and a pickaxe on their shoulders, chatting in the rain:

"Can monsters emerge in this place where the bird does not poop? What do monsters eat?"

"I eat something like you who do not believe in evil. The immortal master said that there is something, and asked so much about it..."

...

In front of the crowd, two young men in martial arts uniforms stood, with waist signs with the word "Qu" hanging around their waists, carrying weapons with them, and standing at the bridge head with their hands behind their backs.

The two of them looked at the most spirit valley. They were not just the aristocratic brand on their waists, and they were enough to discourage the young cultivators who were as tall as duckweed.

Xie Qiutao came to the bridge, stood behind the crowd and looked at it for a few times, and asked politely:

"Immortal Master, aren't you allowed to go in today?"

The two Qu family children guarding the iron chain bridge were quite polite, but they were inevitably the condescending and plain response from the Taoist Immortal Master when facing the casual cultivator:

"A monster appeared in the Wilderness Beach, roaming everywhere and killing people's lives. The elders are eliminating monsters. You will come again in a few days."

The Qu family built a quarry in the deserted beach and often pulled green vine stones to load and unload them by the river. The young cultivators walking nearby were not unfamiliar with him, and most of them turned around and left after hearing this.

Zuo Lingquan was a little suspicious about this, and he had just met the people of the Qu family in Qianqiu Yuefu. The Taohua Lord won a famous piano from the Qu family, ran to the Huanggutan thousands of miles away, and met the people of the Qu family again. It was really strange.

The world is so big, and the chance of coincidence is very slim. Zuo Lingquan feels that the Peach Blossom Lord letting him come over is likely to be related to the "monster" mentioned by the Qu family.

Thinking of this, Zuo Lingquan did not alert the snake. He and two young cultivators who pretended to be traveling, returned to the east bank, found a secluded place, and crossed the river directly with the wind.

Entering the inside of the Wilderness Beach, Zuo Lingquan discovered that hundreds of miles from the iron chain bridge to the deep quarry were inspected by monks from the Qu family, persuaded the monks who accidentally approached, and some people were searching around, and it seemed that they were really chasing the traces of monsters.

Zuo Lingquan did not find the whereabouts of the monster. He was not sure about the facts of the Qu family's move, so he looked at the most capable dumpling and asked:

"Tuan'er, are there any monsters here?"

Tuanzi squatted in Tang Jingwen's arms, and after looking around in a daze for a long time, his small wings pointed at an unknown swamp a hundred miles away:

"grumble!"

On the way to the quarry, Xie Qiutao discovered the swamp, where there were only a few birds and beasts, and even ghosts were not included. No one from the Qu family went anywhere. She shook her head and said:

"He is a powerful monster, very fierce, is there any?"

Tuanzi looked around again, spread out his wings, indicating that it was cleaner than his mother's legs and there was not a single hair. Where did the monsters and monsters come from?

Zuo Lingquan's idea was similar to Tuanzi. When he had no idea how to start, he turned around and went to the unknown swamp:

"Go and take a look..."

…—

Deep in the wild bone beach, under the swamp.

The stone carvings of auspicious beasts dragged the lampstand, and the fire of the eternal lamp illuminated the stone doors of the towering tomb.

In the underground square where the marks were everywhere, three figures stood in front of the tall tomb gate, and four unconscious formation masters lay on the steps in front of them.

Qu Qianchen, the head of the Qu family, who was among the three, put his hands on him and carefully observed the four formation masters on the ground:

"Bewitched by the magic of the soul, it is difficult to wake up in a dream. The person who casts the magic is either a demon or an immortal..."

The white-haired old man standing on the side of Qu Qianchen was Qu Qianchen's brother: "This matter is a bit strange. If an immortal master came to seize the opportunity, even if he didn't kill someone to silence him, he should have taken away the things in the tomb. Now that the person has not been killed and the tomb has not been opened, would he be unable to break the formation and go back to find reinforcements?"

Standing on the other side was Deacon Zheng from the Danyi Room of Pofeng City, and the four formation masters were his disciples. After observing the traces around him, he set his eyes on the tomb door:

"I don't think so. If someone wants to mobilize reinforcements, he will not knock the four disciples out of nowhere to shock the snake. I guess it was the disciple who cracked the formation and accidentally touched the mechanism in the tomb, and accidentally got hit..."

Qu Qianchen felt that this was more likely and nodded:

"If someone wanted to seize food from a tiger's mouth, a few days later, reinforcements should have arrived long ago..."

Dong

While he was speaking, a few light sounds came from above the underground square and the warning formation in the swamp was touched.

The three of them were all in a state of confrontation and their breath was suppressed.

The second master of the Qu family thought it was not good and whispered: "Someone broke in. If an Immortal-level master came over with reinforcements, we three may not be our opponents..."

Deacon Zheng shook his head: "I came in silently last time. How could I touch the formation when I came in now? I guess it was not the same group of people."

Qu Ganchen didn't expect the two dog-headed military advisors to raise his hand slightly:

"The person who comes is not good. You should take the formation master out with the earth escape technique first and quickly notify the Shuangfeng Ancestor to come. I will delay some time first."

"good."

…—

It was raining and toxic miasma everywhere.

Zuo Lingquan was hanging his sword on his waist, floating silently in the fog of the swamp, paying attention to clues on the ground.

Because the yin energy is too heavy and the spiritual energy fluctuates disorderly, many birds and beasts gather but do not disperse, and their perception is greatly affected, and the situation is not judged more than a hundred feet away.

Xie Qiutao's experience in exploring treasures in the secret realm is more than Zuo Lingquan. At this time, he became the leader of the three. He searched in the swamp and groped for a long time. He stopped in the depths of the swamp, with an inconspicuous dead tree half buried in the mud, and then made a 'shh' gesture.

Zuo Lingquan and Tang Jingwen stopped in the air, holding their breath and condensing their breath.

Xie Qiutao took out a pole made of a stone from Linglong Pavilion, which looked like a small purse. After observing it near the dead wood for a long time, he inserted the pole into the mud.

Zuo Lingquan knew that this move was to interfere with the operation of the warning formation and avoid being discovered by his opponent. He did not speak out. He waited until Qiu Tao finished clapping his hands before speaking:

"This will break the formation?"

Xie Qiutao used his true energy to separate the mud below and dived into the ground: "If it is not broken, it will be discovered. Go in quickly. Don't underestimate this. I have been living in Yingyang Immortal Palace for a long time before I learned it from an old formation master. I have been on stage for a quarter of an hour and off stage for ten years..."

Zuo Lingquan naturally knew that breaking the formation was not only about inserting the stick, but mostly the formation was adaptable to the environment. Even if it was exactly the same, the position of the formation eye would change. If it was made mistakes, the formation would trigger, which required a lot of preliminary knowledge accumulation.

It is indeed not an exaggeration to say that Xie Qiutao’s stick is a ten-year skill, but you will know the effect only if you continue.

In just one sentence, the three of them had already passed through the swamp and came outside the underground cave mansion below.

Xie Qiutao held the iron pipa upside down, looked around carefully for a while, and shrugged slightly:

"No one came out and sneaked in successfully."

“…”

Zuo Lingquan was a little suspicious of Taotao's level of breaking the formation and did not take it lightly. He asked Xie Qiutao and Jingying to pay attention to the rear. He slowly entered the ancient underground cave palace.

The cave was made of special bricks and stones. After thousands of years, the main structure has not changed, but the useful things inside have long been taken away, and only the stone base of the alchemy furnace and other things can be seen. The three of them paid attention to the surrounding area and soon came to the storage room behind the cave. The entrance to the ground was not sealed, and the firelight could be seen below.

Zuo Lingquan raised his finger slightly, looked down from the entrance of the cave, and saw the majestic underground tomb. He was shocked, but he looked around the underground square but found no trace.

Xie Qiutao looked at the giant tomb door dozens of feet high, and was filled with surprise, and said in a voice that only Zuo Lingquan could hear:

"It's hard to say that there are immortal soldiers in such a grand tomb. The Qu family must be digging this in secret."

Tang Jingwen covered Tuanzi's mouth and thought for a while and said in a low voice:

"Are we going to kill people and seize treasures?"

Xie Qiutao shook his head quickly: "What are you killing people and robbing treasures? Let's see if the Qu family has done evil in secret. If there is, we will crack down on organized crime and seize the spoils; if there is no, we will help them with their strength and cooperate to develop, and then divide the accounts afterwards."

"Oh...we seven?"

...
To be continued...