The years of reselling the haunted house

But he was still a step too late, the third uncle moved first.

The third uncle was right next to Ma Di, he grabbed Ma Di's arm and pulled it back, at the same time he stabbed the mountain dog with the mahogany sword in his hand.

I know that third uncle is actually capable, especially his Taoism.But I just realized today that his skills are not bad, and he is completely different from his usual lazy state.

The sword stabbed out extremely swiftly and fiercely.The mountain dog was about to bite Ma Su, but the sword just passed the mountain dog's head and pierced through the neck.

The mahogany sword was also very sharp, and the third uncle used [-]% of his strength to pass through the neck.

The third uncle flew up and kicked the mountain dog out.On the mountain dog's neck, a blood hole appeared, and blood was gurgling out.

Ma Di was pulled away by his third uncle, and seeing this scene, he also broke out in sweat.

The two mountain dogs attacked rashly, but Liang Yue and the third uncle attacked at the same time, and they ended the battle beautifully.

Not only was this beyond our expectation, but the mandrills and mountain dogs on the opposite side probably didn't expect it either. The team was in chaos.The mountain dogs and mandrills in front also slowed down.

However, their encirclement still hasn't dissipated, and the thief's eyes are fixed on us, ready to move.

At this time, the mandrill holding the banner began to shake the spiritual banner crazily as if it had received some order.

The hesitant mandrills retreated, and the coyotes came up.

This time the action was a collective action, and my heart sank. We estimate that this kind of group attack will last for less than a few minutes.The bloodthirsty instincts of the black mountain dogs were also stimulated because their companions were killed.It is estimated that under the attack of these mountain dogs, even tigers can't get cheap.

And at this moment, a dog barked suddenly from the low wall.

I was startled, thinking that a coyote had attacked from behind the low wall.

But the barking sound was very familiar, and another dog jumped down from the low wall, blocking us and the coyotes.

"Iron Zhu!" I shouted in surprise.

The dog that jumped down turned out to be the stray dog ​​I picked up.

I took him to Nanliu Village, but he ran away at a critical moment.I thought I was completely lost by now.As for the Xuanyuan dog that Ma Di mentioned, I never dared to associate it with Tie Zhu.Just such a coward, how could he be such an awesome dog?

It's just that I never expected that on this occasion, it would appear like a divine soldier descending from heaven.

When Ma Di saw Tie Zhu approaching, he shouted ecstatically, "How is it? What did I say, this is the authentic Xuanyuan dog, which protects the master. Seeing you in trouble, I came to save you... "

At this time, Tie Zhu bowed his waist and confronted dozens of mountain dogs on the opposite side.There is actually a kind of aura that one man is in charge of the other and ten thousand is not open. Could it be that I have really found a treasure?If it can really fight against dozens, what is it if it is not a divine beast?

I shouted loudly: "Tie Zhu, hold on to me, go back and cook your big bones."

Tie Zhu, the dog, is a full-fledged foodie, and his favorite food is big bone sticks.It's just that it eats like this, and I can't afford it, so I can only give it a toothpaste occasionally.

This time I also have high hopes for Tie Zhu. If it is really a mythical beast, then dealing with a mere mountain dog would be a piece of cake?Then it should be paid for some big bones.

The mountain dog on the opposite side also paused when it saw the iron pillar.

But then, a tall mountain dog with green hair on its back barked.This sound was almost like a howling wolf, full of momentum.

To my surprise, Tie Zhu trembled from the howl, and ran away with his tail between his legs.

"Damn it. Come back to me..." I was furious, how could this **** look like a beast?

Chapter 146

Tie Zhu's performance surprised me.It also stunned Ma Su next to him.

Ma Di conclusively said that Tie Zhu was a Xuanyuan dog, a precious breed among dogs, and the incarnation of a legendary beast.Just now it descended from heaven, so I also think it is the savior who came to save us.After all, the name of the beast is extraordinary, how can dozens of wild dogs rival it.

Unexpectedly, when the other party howled, Tie Zhu was so frightened that he ran away with his tail between his legs.

The problem of bullying the soft and fearing the hard is still the same.

In desperation, I chased after a few steps, and my shout was still effective. This guy ran around, and found that the way he was going was surrounded by groups and he couldn't get out at all.As a result, it ran back and leaned on my lap panting.

I patted Tie Zhu on the head: "Tie Zhu, although you failed to save us, but you were able to die willingly, it is not in vain for me to pick you up."

After such an episode, I also thought about it.Things are in such a situation, the situation is not easy to change.Zhou Zheng has clearly controlled the entire Yagu area, the mandrills, mountain dogs and poisonous insects on the ground here.These are not things we can resist.

The mountain dogs roared and rushed forward again, and the mandrills raised their heads like gorillas and thumped their chests violently, roaring loudly.

For a while, ghosts and wolves howled in the valley, and the sound shook the sky.My legs started to feel weak, facing this situation, it was pretty awesome not to pee in fear.

As a result, what I didn't expect was that, seeing that we were about to be buried in the belly of wolves, the situation changed subtly again.

First, Tie Zhu noticed the abnormality, and he started barking towards the side of the valley.

I looked over, but nothing happened.

Afterwards, the mountain dogs and mandrills that besieged us also started to stir up trouble.

I vaguely felt the ground tremble slightly.

Ma Di has great confidence in Tie Zhu: "Tie Zhu is born with a sense of spirituality and sensitive senses, so something must happen."

As soon as Ma Su finished speaking, he saw a cloud of thick black smoke suddenly rising from that direction.

Black smoke billowed in the air and quickly spread around.Immediately afterwards, the flames shot up into the sky, almost turning half of the sky red.A heat wave also swept over.

Those mandrills and mountain dogs were also beasts after all, and they were thrown into chaos when they were rushed by the hot air.After a brief hesitation, they scattered and fled.

This kind of scene is like facing a huge disaster, and the animals are scrambling to escape.

We all looked at each other, not knowing what happened.

Ma Su looked in that direction and said, "Isn't that the direction of the Bird King Temple?"

The third uncle waved his hand: "Go, go and have a look."

We were about to brave the heat wave to go there when we felt the ground tremble violently, as if the sky had collapsed and the earth had cracked.Our feet are also a little unstable, and we are struggling to maintain our balance.

"Damn it. Is there an earthquake?" I cursed.

At this time, I saw a person running from the direction of the fire. The person was agile and quickly ran to us.

At first I thought Zhou Zheng was chasing him out, but when I got closer, I realized that he was wearing the same red robe as me, and he turned out to be an old man who hadn't shown up.

The old stall said he came in to look for the bones of the third uncle, and he never returned.In this way, Ma Su and Liang Yue and I ventured into Yagu to find out.

During the period when we were besieged by the sand wolf worms and entered the tree hole and the hole in the ground, the old stall also never showed up.I almost forgot that there are old stalls here.

The old stall head ran to the front, panting with exhaustion, his face was smoky like the bottom of a pot.

I was about to say something, but the old stall owner waved his hand: "Don't ask, get out of here first, that place is going to collapse."

Our feet were still shaking violently. We didn't dare to ask more questions when we saw the old stall's appearance, so we followed him and ran down a small path in Yagu.

The old stall was very familiar with the route, and led us to sprint all the way to a halfway up a mountain.

We turned our heads to see where the fire started.

It turned out to be the century-old dead tree, which was burned like a big wax.And the ground around the dead tree is constantly collapsing.

Less than 5 minutes after we reached the top of the mountain, the ground collapsed with a bang.A puff of smoke rose up.Thick smoke billowed from the collapsed place, and it was obvious that a fire had started below.It is estimated that all the poisonous insects should have died in it.

"Zhou Zheng is still inside..." Ma Di shouted anxiously.

Xing Mo frowned, and tried to persuade him: "This is called self-indulgence. Zhou Zheng spent a lot of time trying to discover the secrets here and get gentian sand at all costs. Now he is really company with dead bones and poisonous insects underground. Teacher, It's nothing to be ashamed of..."

I glanced at the old stall, and found that the old stall was not at all surprised by what happened below, and there was a little excitement in his expression, and his eyebrows were beaming.

I couldn't help asking: "Master Tan, did you do this?"

The old stall didn't answer my question, but suddenly he knelt down towards the land boundary, raised his hands to the sky, and wailed loudly twice.

"Master Tan, what's wrong with you? You're crying and laughing..."

The old stall still didn't care, and cried and howled for more than ten minutes, before slowing down, stood up slowly from the ground, and said: "My ancestors were from this Nanliu Village back then. Then At that time, people in the village were bewitched by Zou Baizu, the king of insects, and they did not believe in Qin Wuyu, the king of birds. Only my ancestors believed in him and left Nanliu Village before the landslide. They were all killed. Among them were many close relatives of our Tan family. Later, my ancestors resettled in the place where Nanliu Village is now. It was still a wilderness at that time."

I nodded: "So that's the case. So, you avenged your ancestors and the people in the village back then."

The old stall head smiled miserably: "The ancestors left the ancestral instructions to avenge the whole village. But the instigator is the insect king. How can we ordinary people fight against him? So we have been adhering to the ancestral instructions and guarding this cliff valley. It has been passed down to my generation. My ancestors have spirits, which allowed me to seize this opportunity. As a bone picker, I often go in and out of cliff valleys. I found that cave and knew that it was a place designed by the insect king. Evil land. I want to use the backbone of the whole village and those insects to revive myself. That Zhou Zheng is the descendant of Zou Baizu, the king of insects. Naturally, I will not let him go. Let alone let that evil land continue to exist. "

I asked again: "We just came here and found a figure, is that you?"

The old stall owner nodded: "It's me. I didn't dare to show up at that time, I was looking for opportunities."

I looked at the large piece of collapsed ground and asked, "But how did you collapse that place?"

Uncle San said, "It's that tree, that century-old dead tree. The whole cave, and the evil spirits inside, rely on this dead tree to maintain balance. This kind of balance is not only a balance of geomantic omen, but also a structural one." Balance. This is also what Qin Wuyu, the bird king, had in mind at the beginning. If the tree is destroyed, without the support of the roots, this balanced structure will be destroyed, and everything will cease to exist.”

Chapter 147 Promise

Is it really as Uncle San said?

I looked at the old stall, and the old stall nodded silently, obviously what the third uncle said was right.It was the old stall who burned the dead tree, and the burrow there was also destroyed.When we escaped, the vines we used were also prepared for us by the old stall.

But Third Uncle looked at the ruins and shook his head again and again.

When I asked about the reason, the third uncle sighed and said, "Chu Liuyan and the half-dead symptoms on me must have been infected by the insect stiffness here. After many twists and turns, although the disappearance of the two couriers I figured it out, but I still couldn't find a way to rescue the half-corpse. Now this place has collapsed again, it seems that this is our fate."

Ma Su thought for a while and said, "Maybe the gentian sand mentioned by Zhou Zheng can cure this kind of insect stiffness. It's a pity that we didn't catch a few mirages, so why don't I go down and try my luck?"

The third uncle glanced at Ma Di, and said with a smile, "What? It's the old man's fault. Is he so enthusiastic this time, is he trying to repay my father for saving my life?"

I remembered that when we were besieged by mountain dogs, the third uncle did indeed save Ma Di.Presumably Ma Di didn't say it at the time, but he knew it well.This time I took the initiative to go down to catch the mirage, which may not mean what my third uncle said.But after third uncle said this, he couldn't hold back.

Ma Di glared at the third uncle: "Smelly old man, Ma Di remembers the favor of saving your life. I don't owe you any favors. I will grab a mirage and pay you back."

With that said, Ma Di turned around and prepared to go down the mountain.

Due to the unknown situation below, we have just escaped from danger, so naturally it is not easy for Ma Di to take another risk.

The third uncle waved his hand: "Okay, blame the old man, don't be childish. You don't have to pay back the life of the Daoist. The fire below has not been extinguished. If you go down at this time, you will lose your old life." It's worth it. What's more, those mirages have been burned to death long ago, where can they be caught?"

Looking at the ruins after the fire, I had mixed feelings in my heart.The hope of saving Chu Liuyan and Third Uncle was burnt out like this fire.But it's no wonder the old man. After all, if he hadn't surrounded Wei to save Zhao, we would have been eaten by those mountain dogs and mandrills long ago.

Our group, led by the old stall, left Fuyang Mountain and returned to his thatched huts.

When we arrived at the old stall's house, it was already late at night.The old stall owner was not bad, and he personally spread some pancakes for us to eat.Although the hands of the old stall had once picked up bones, it was disgusting to think about it.But we have been hungry for a day and a night, and we are hungry, and the smell of the pancakes still overcomes my psychological fear, and we wiped out those pancakes.That night I slept at the old stall's house.

When I woke up the next day, I saw the sunlight outside the window, bright and dazzling.

I once again felt the preciousness of life, but when I thought of the half-dead symptoms on my third uncle, I began to feel depressed again.

We just got out of danger last night, and our hearts were in a mess.After dawn, we formally expressed our gratitude to the old stall.

The old stall head waved his hand, but called me over alone, looked around and asked in a low voice, "Boy, did you forget our agreement?"

I froze for a moment, then remembered.I had an agreement with the old stall head, he promised to help me save people, and I would give him the five emperors' money of Jiaqing Tongbao on me.Although he said he was borrowing it for a year, but in my opinion, since this thing is so precious, it might be difficult to get it back.

But since I have a word with others first, I can't just keep my word.The main reason is that I only know that this king coin is very precious, but I really don't feel that there is anything special about it. It is nothing more than being able to defend myself when encountering evil spirits.But this kind of magic weapon for self-defense should be more than just Wang Qian, and its role should be more than that.

Seeing the old stall asked, I took off the king's money around my neck.When the king's money was in the cave, I took it off.Later, when I was rushing outside, I took it back from my third uncle.

I handed the king coin to the old stall.

The old stall's face was flushed with excitement, and the hand that took the Wang Qian trembled a little.

The old stall owner took the king's money and carefully carried it with him.He smiled and said to me: "My boy, you really keep your promise. My old stall owner likes it very much. Don't worry, I will return this thing in the original after one year, and I will do what I promise. At that time, you can come here Ask me for it."

I waved my hand: "This is what it should be, I promised you, how can I go back on it? Then I will visit you in a year."

The old stall head nodded, and said: "Let's do this. I'm sorry that you don't have this protective device on your body. I'll give you two things as compensation and thanks."

As the old stall said, he took out a cloth bag from his body and opened it with his hands.

In one of the cloth bags was a tooth.The teeth looked like the teeth of a ferocious beast. They were yellowish in color, long and sharp, and one could imagine that it should have bitten off the bones of many animals.There is a red thread on the tooth, which can also be worn around the neck.

The old stall head put the thing on my neck, and introduced: "This tooth is from when I went to Yagu two years ago, I met two mountain dogs fighting for the king, one black and one gray, biting each other. But they both lost. I saw the black mountain dog bite off the gray mountain dog's throat, and it died of exhaustion. I took its canine teeth away and kept it until today. This thing can ward off evil spirits. You wear it."

I also heard from my third uncle that there are many things that ward off evil spirits among the people.This black dog tooth is one of them.

"On Rites" records: Dogs belong to "the animal of the most yang" and have the function of deterring and defusing evil. The most deterrent thing on a dog is its sharp teeth.Now I know that mountain dog is actually a kind of sand wolf.The mountain dog king is actually the wolf king.The wolf king's teeth are naturally better.According to this, this wolf tooth is really a treasure.Unexpectedly, the old stall can really give up love.

However, this also shows from the side that the king coin is even more precious.

Then, the old stall opened a backpack he carried when he went up the mountain.

He took out a glass bottle from inside, which was about the size of a can, with a sealed top.The old stall put the glass bottle in front of me, and I saw several worms entangled in it at a glance.

Seeing those worms, I was a little stunned, pointing to the glass bottle and speechless.

Because those few worms turned out to be the earth mirage that we tried so hard to find, which is what Ma Di said.

The old stall owner smiled: "When I burned that dead tree, the bone-picking hand was quick enough to catch these five worms. I know you need this thing very much, so I'll give it to you too. But don't tell me just yet. They said, I'm afraid they will know and won't let you give me this copper coin."

Chapter 148 Five Earth Mirages