The sky was slightly bright. After Wang Ziyu caught two wild animals in the mountains and roasted them with Qi Tiezui, he followed the ridge of the village entrance to a hillside and looked at the canyon and the cliff where the courier station was located.
Wang Ziyu frowned and said," This is a small village. There are only one or two hundred people, but there are already six or seven families with white window grilles. It seems that Lord Zeng's worries are not unreasonable."”
As he spoke, Wang Ziyu pointed at the white window grilles." Look, some of the white window grilles have faded. It looks like they've been pasted for a while." If the people in the stockade had started dying so early, the plague would have spread long ago.”
" Eh?!"
Qi Tiezui pointed at the fields in the distance and said,"Ziyu, look, what is that?”
Wang Ziyu looked over when he heard that. He noticed that in a desolate forest about a mile away, there was a sharp thing sticking out from the top of the tree.
Wang Ziyu narrowed his eyes and took a closer look."That is the top of an ancient pagoda, but why is there a pagoda here?”
Qi Tiezui said," There were White Lotus Society activities here in the early years. That's not a pagoda, but a Wuji Pagoda. There should be a Taoist temple in that forest." Look, the top of the pagoda is like a male sun. It's different from the pagodas we've seen before.”
He took out the compass to check the direction and said,"The location of this Taoist temple is wrong. There might be something going on inside. Should we go and take a look?!”
Wang Ziyu pondered for a moment and said,""Look, we have to go and take a look. Perhaps there are clues we are looking for inside.”
The two of them tied the horse and donkey to a tree beside them. Then, they walked through the terraced fields and arrived outside the desolate forest.
As soon as he entered the forest, he saw ruins in the depths of the forest. It was an abandoned Taoist temple. Further in, there were three tiled halls. Half of the roof tiles had collapsed, and most of the gates and walls had collapsed. Only the foundation was left.
The two of them came to the front of the hall and saw that there was not even a horizontal board on the door of the hall. The Taoist statues and shrines in the hall were all gone. There were only rubble and fallen leaves on the ground.
Wang Ziyu wanted to go in and take a look, but Qi Tiezui shook his head and stopped him.
He pointed at the Wuji Tower in the overgrown courtyard behind the hall. After looking at the compass, he said,"There must be evil spirits within nine steps!"
Hearing this, Wang Ziyu walked around the main hall and went to the courtyard to look around. Sure enough, he found a carving of exorcism on a bluestone beside the stone tower.
"Follow Bi Xie's front claw and walk five steps, there will definitely be a well!”
Qi Tiezui nodded in satisfaction as he looked at the Bi Xie sculpture.
Wang Ziyu glanced at Qi Tiezui and walked five steps forward according to his instructions. He saw a large bluestone.
Wang Ziyu grabbed the gap on the side of the bluestone and moved it away with force. Indeed, a hidden well appeared below.
"Not bad, Lord Myna!"
Wang Ziyu looked at Qi Tiezui in surprise.
Qi Tiezui pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose and acted like a master.
The two of them leaned closer to the well and looked down. They could not see the bottom of the well, but Qi Tiezui's expression suddenly became very ugly.
Seeing Qi Tiezui's expression change, Wang Ziyu asked,""What's wrong, Master Eight? What did you find?"
"Why is the well round?" asked Qi Tiezui.”
"So what if the well is round?" Wang Ziyu asked curiously. Shouldn't the well be round?"
"No," Qi Tiezui shook his head and said,"Exorcism should be square." I... I'm not good at learning!"
As he spoke, he immediately counted with his fingers.
Wang Ziyu couldn't understand Qi Tiezui's incoherent words and felt baffled. In his previous life, who didn't have a round well? What could be wrong?
As he thought about it, Wang Ziyu took out a lighter. Just as he was about to light it up to see the situation in the well, he suddenly felt a gust of cold wind blowing from the well.
Just as Wang Ziyu felt strange and was about to poke his head out to take a look, a yellow-haired claw suddenly reached out from the well and grabbed the collar of Wang Ziyu, who was bending over, and pulled him down.
Qi Tiezui was so frightened that he took a step back, and the compass in his hand fell to the ground.
A few seconds after Wang Ziyu was dragged down, Qi Tiezui heard a beast-like roar coming from the bottom of the well.
He walked to the side of the well and looked down. He took a deep breath and counted with his fingers. It was a close call.
"Ah ~!"
Qi Tiezui shouted and jumped down as well.
The well was about 17 to 18 meters deep. Qi Tiezui fell very fast and instantly fell into the water.
The water was filled with the stench of rotting leaves. Qi Tiezui struggled to the surface and saw that there was an underwater stone step on one side. He struggled to climb up, but before he could climb out of the water, he was grabbed by someone.
Qi Tiezui spat out the stinky water in his mouth. When he saw that it was Wang Ziyu who carried him up, he was relieved.
At this moment, Wang Ziyu's clothes were gone from the upper half of his body. He was covered in blood and stood in front of him with the Higan Sword in his hand, which was emitting a demonic red light. He didn't know if he was injured or if it was the blood of the thing that attacked him just now.
"Ziyu, are you alright? Where is it?"
Qi Tiezui asked Wang Ziyu with concern as he lit a lighter.
"I'm fine," Wang Ziyu said."That thing got injured and ran away.”
As Qi Tiezui lit up the lighter in his hand, the two of them were stunned when they saw their surroundings.
In front of them was an abandoned stone room. The inside of the stone room was filled with a net made of insect silk, covering all the walls and floors.
One could see clay vats in the net. There were Dao talismans on them, layer by layer stuck to the body and mouth of the vats. The innermost ones had already rotted into ashes, and one could roughly see what was written on the outside.
After Wang Ziyu finished looking at the situation in the stone room, he frowned and asked,"Lord Myna, what does it mean that the well is round?”
Qi Tiezui replied,"There are evil spirits outside. The square ones mean that there are corpses below, and the round ones are demons." That claw was covered in yellow hair. Could it be that the Yellow Immortal from before had run over?”
"Since Yellow Immortal is helping us, why did he capture me?" Wang Ziyu asked curiously.”
Qi Tiezui shook his head. He looked at the extra earthen jars and the Dao talismans on them. He squatted down and took a closer look. He sucked in a cold breath and said,"I see!"
"What's wrong?" Wang Ziyu asked.
"These neutrons aren't the key to harming people. These bugs are kept here to seal something else underground!" Qi Tiezui said with a serious expression.”
Ps:
This book comes from：m.funovel.com。