157|The High and Narrow Road 3

Hearing this name, Xie Ren was stunned, and then noticed that this youth’s voice was a bit familiar, he should have heard it a few times, and his next glance went to look at this person’s wrist. Although the wrist is covered by the sleeve, but he can be sure, the bottom of the sleeve, must be hiding a black spell yoke.

Pei Ming also stood up, further confirming the identity of this black-clothed youth: ”His Highness, Guiding Jade? That’s true. I didn’t expect to meet you here. You are ……”

Guiding Jade scratched the bridge of his nose with his fingertips and returned the greeting, saying, “True Lord Spirit Man, General Pei, Little General Pei.”

Suddenly, a voice grunted, “Lead Jade? You’re the one who gave his own senior brother a crushing defeat, Guiding Jade?”

Several magi expression are stiff for a moment, the voice continued: “I say, you are also too unproductive, right? Being devalued not to mention, directly to go with the ghosts to mix with the difference, with that what Quan Yizhen compared, you are really poorly mixed through, at the expense of you or his senior brother it ……”

The voice was emitted by none other than Rong Guang who was cowering in the jar. Pei Zhu immediately put a talisman up to shut him up.

Although, under Jun Wu’s hand is also as an errand boy, under Lord Hua Cheng’s hand is also as an errand boy, there is no difference, but in the past the Divine Magistrate, now as a Ghost Envoy, right now and so many old immortal friends share a room, an analogy is that the constable did a thief, and gave the old colleague to catch the bag, the air is filled with an awkward atmosphere. Everyone did not know what to say, so Guiding Jade had to silently turn around, copied the earth master shovel to continue digging.

As the crowd traveled forward while topping the road, Pei Ming was still mindful of his friend’s brother’s whereabouts and said, ”Since Lord Flower City was able to get his hands on the Geomancer’s Shovel, it means that the two of you are still in contact with each other? I remember when I asked His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the Crown Prince even excused Your Excellency, saying that Your Excellency was not familiar with that Blackwater Xuan Ghost and must not know his whereabouts. Could you please inform that Xuan Ghost that if he didn’t kill Qing Xuan, please release him back?”

Flower City, however, said, “You are wrong. I indeed don’t know the whereabouts of the Black Water.”

“So where did the shovel come from?”

Flower City said, “I picked it up.”

“……”

He is justified not to recognize, how to do? People can’t take him what to do, not to mention this situation, we still have to beg for him, Pei Ming had to hey: “Okay. Flower city master hand luck is really good, hand can pick up the magic treasure.”

Being carried on Pei Su’s shoulder, Ling Wen habitually said, “This precious shovel is the things of the Divine Officer of the Upper Heavenly Court, is the Lord of the City of Flowers the return of things to their original ……” Before he finished speaking, he reacted to the fact that he was not serving in the Upper Heavenly Court now, and there was no need for him to help collect the debt, and he shut up.

Xie Ren rubbed his brow, still wondering if he should ask secretly, when he heard Hua Cheng whisper in a voice only he could hear, ”Blackwater threw it. After not pretending to be an Earth Master he threw the shovel at the Ghost Market and ran away. Before entering Copper Furnace Mountain, I thought it might be useful, so I sent someone back to get it.”

Xie Ren said, “So, I thought I could know the whereabouts of the wind master master it …… This precious shovel used to cope with mountain monsters is just right, Sanlang is really well thought out, calculating nothing.”

Hua Cheng said, “But I was chased by this mountain monster enough back then to grow a memory.”

Xie Ren couldn’t help but imagine what it was like to be a newcomer to the Copper Furnace Mountain’s Flower City as a newcomer to breaking through the passes. At this time, the darkness was lit up with a few small clusters of silver light, it was the Necrotic Butterfly that emitted the ethereal phosphorescent light, acting as an illuminating object. Xie Ren held a small silver butterfly in vain and looked upwards, saying, “What exactly is this mountain monster? Why is it attacking us?”

Flower City said, “It’s hard to say what they are. When I came here, they had already existed for a long time. However, they are not attacking us, for all those who want to enter Copper Furnace Mountain, they will block them. When they can’t block them, they attack.”

Xie Ren said, “An indiscriminate attack? Thinking about it that way, it’s consistent with our purpose. Right now, Lord Rainmaster and His Highness Qiying are both in the Copper Furnace Mountain as well, so I hope they won’t be in danger.”

Guiding Yu had been diligently digging and opening the road, and when he heard him talk about Quan Yizhen, his movements seemed to have slightly stalled for a moment. Xie Ren noticed and swept him a glance, remembering that he had met Quan Yizhen once before when he was wearing a mask, but at that time, Guiding Jade had acted as if he did not recognize Quan Yizhen at all, so what would happen if Quan Yizhen knew that the person standing in front of him was his senior brother?

Spirit Man barely raised his head and said, “Your Highness Guiding Jade, have you seen His Highness Qi Ying? He came to my Spirit Man Hall and asked me to help find you many times.”

Citation Jade got stuck for a moment and said, “Yes, yes?”

Ling Wen said, “Yes. When you first went down there, he came almost one day, and then when there was always no news, he came three days, one month, and not long ago, one year. He has always felt that there was a misunderstanding between you in that matter of the brocade fairy, and wanted to listen to your explanation, and helped you to explain to others, but you have never heard a word.”

Guiding Jade stopped talking and just sighed, digging the hole even harder. Xie Renxin said, “He doesn’t want to talk anymore.”

Ling Wen was also a smart person, and hearing this, he kept his mouth shut, leaving Guiding Jade to concentrate on opening the road by himself. I don’t know how long it took, but Guiding Jade said, “City Lord, Your Highness, we have advanced thirty miles underground, continue digging?”

That geomancer shovel in the earth traveling shovel like the wind, just like cutting tofu, and there is no any broken soil accumulation, coupled with a line of escape mentality, walking faster than on the ground, actually a moment to run out of thirty miles. Xie Ren heard him also piggybacked on his own, slightly strange, warm voice: “You do not need to ask me ah.”

Hua Cheng said, “It’s the same to ask anyone. What does brother think?”

Xie Ren thought for a moment and said, “We were almost out of the canyon when we were pinned down by the mountain monsters, thirty miles should be far enough. There’s not enough air circulation underground, so I’m afraid we’ll get dizzy if we stay any longer, so let’s dig upwards.”

Lead Jade responded, “Yes!” Immediately changing direction, he dug diagonally upwards, even repairing beautiful dirt steps. Xie Ren thought, “This person is really good as a deputy, handy and without a word of nonsense.”

The crowd followed behind Guiding Jade, out of the dozens of steps, suddenly, Xie Ren felt his feet stepped on a hard protrusion, not like a stone or mud, low crouched down, with a shallow hand digging, a moment, slightly staring. Seeing this, Hua Cheng said, “Brother, don’t move!” However, it was already too late, as Xie Ren stood up, his left hand already holding up a skeleton, and his right hand also holding up a skeleton, saying, “Gentlemen, there is a question. Are we digging into a mass grave?”

And Pei Ming also pulled out a thigh bone from the earth wall aside and sighed, “Right. Looking at this bone, it was bound to be a stunning woman with slender legs in life, and it’s a pity to be buried here.”

Hanagi said, “It’s a shame. Long legs no less, but it’s a man’s bones.”

Pei Ming dropped the thigh bone with little interest once he heard that it was not a woman. Hua Cheng added, “To be precise, it’s the bone of a man who transformed into a ghost and deformed, so there must be corpse poison on it.”

Pei Ming spread out his palms, and sure enough, the places where his hands had held over the bones showed greenish-colored corpse qi. Spirit Man said, “Can you control your hands. Can you?”

Pei Zhu said, “Corpse, poison is no, harm. The general, the army is a magus, after one, bout it will be fine, it will be fine!”

To tell the truth, that thigh bone is not only slender, but also quite strong, swinging with a tiger, Pei Ming still picked it up and wrapped a few strips of cloth around the end to hold it, it seems to intend to use it as a weapon, saying, “Your Highness the Crown Prince, how are you okay with holding those two heads?”

Xie Ren gently put down the two skeletons and unfolded his hands to the crowd. It turned out that the palms of his hands were also green in color, but that green color was fading rapidly.

Xie Ren said, “Truth be told. The number of times I’ve been poisoned by corpse poison is eight hundred if not a thousand, so my resistance is already very strong now, and this level of corpse poison is okay.”

Upon hearing this, the crowd was inexplicably comical and kind of wanted to laugh. Hua Cheng, however, didn’t seem very happy and stomped on the two skeletons as he walked over.

Originally, Xie Ren was quite relieved, but after hearing these two rough and even vicious “kakak” sounds, she sensitively captured Hua Cheng’s unhappy mood. She wanted to ask what was going on, but inexplicably felt that his unhappiness seemed to have been caused by herself, so she didn’t dare to ask.

A short while later, only Hua Cheng faintly said, “Why did you dig for so long?”

This tunnel from the surface, should be at most only two feet, even if it is digging to the slanting top will be a slightly longer distance, but it should not be dug for such a long time. Citing jade depressedly said, “I also strange …… wait, to, dig through!”

Hua Cheng just asked, the front end of the geomancer shovel dug a hole, dug through, cited jade a few shovel copied out a big hole to be the first to leap out, said, “We came out ……?”

Everyone climbed out, however, after their feet stepped on the “ground”, they all felt strange. Pei Ming said, “Is this back to the ground? No way. What is this place?”

Where they came out was definitely not the surface. Because of that, the light was very dim. Spirit Man said, “It was still daytime when we walked through the canyon just now, there’s no reason for it to be dark so soon.”

Several Necromantic Butterflies flew out with a ghostly phosphorescence and circled around. The crowd finally saw what place they were in right now.

It was a large cave. It was empty, and the dome was extremely high and wide, as if it was an ink-colored night sky. In all directions, countless small caves were born, each leading to a different direction. Xie Ren wondered, “Is this place artificially excavated or naturally formed?”

Flower City clasped her arms and looked away, saying, “Naturally occurring.”

Although, to Xie Ren he still had questions and answers, but Xie Ren was always thinking about that little bit wrong with his party. Hua Cheng added, “This upper digging point picked by Fang just happens to be pressed right above this mountain. It’s dug inside this mountain.”

Xie Ren nodded, “So it is. Then let’s hurry up and find an exit to get out.”

Peiju said, “But, which, way, is it?”

It was quite a conundrum. Excluding those small holes that were too small for a person to drill into, there were seven or eight holes left that people could pass through. Xie Ren hugged his arms in thought, and Pei Su said, “Split, group, line, move? Fastest.”

Xie Ren lowered his arm and said, “Don’t. Splitting up is a big no-no, in case there’s something lurking in the shadows, it’s too easy to be broken down one by one. It’s better to slow down to find out the right one than to spread out our forces.”

Pei Ming held the new weapon made of the thigh bone in his hand, and seemed to be addicted to swinging it, saying as he did so, “Let’s move together then, and go this one first.”

So, the crowd chose a path and moved together. Hua Cheng and Xie Ren traveled at the very front to take the lead. After walking in silence for a while, Xie Ren tentatively whispered, “Sanlang?”

Flower City’s color had long since eased and said, “Does brother want to ask anything?”

Xie Ren always bad to ask him Fang was not a little angry, casually said, “Nothing. Just …… this cave curved like intestines, walking a little dizzy.”

Hearing this, Flower City immediately said, “Then do you want to take a break?”

He didn’t have the slightest intention of joking. Xie Ren was busy saying, “No need, no need.” Behind her, Pei Ming said, “Did I hear you right, Your Highness the Crown Prince, you still get dizzy when you walk?”

“…… “Xie Ren also felt just this casual nonsense a little bit of shame, as if no words to find words, pretending not to hear Pei Ming Fang that sentence, solemn: “Gentlemen, the back of the must follow a little more tightly, this cave corner more easy to accident ……”

As he said that, he looked back but froze, grabbing Hua Cheng and saying, “Sanlang!”

Flower City said, “What?” Along with turning back, there was also a frown between his eyebrows.

Behind them, they were actually empty!

Just a sentence ago, Pei Ming was still driving taunts not far behind him, but now, the dark cave was empty with only the two of them left. Hua Cheng immediately wrapped his arm around Xie Ren’s shoulders and said in a deep voice, “Brother, stay by my side and don’t wander off.”

Xie Ren also held his breath and stared on guard, saying, “Is there anything hidden in the mountains?”

Flower City said, “No. But it’s the absence that’s scary.”

Because that would mean that there was something that could get close to them unknowingly and take everyone captive!