Chapter 85 Chapter 84 Gu Poison and Secret Paths

At this moment, Huang Laodao sat cross-legged under the nose of Ba Fangzi's giant face, clasped his hands together, and seemed to have entered a state of meditation. My nephew lay on the 'shu' pocket and looked up in a daze. I was about to stand up and look around when I suddenly felt a coldness on the back of my neck. Tie Guanyin shrugged his shoulders in horror, did not dare to look back, and listened carefully, but there was no movement behind him, and there was no strange shadow on the stone wall reflected by the fire, so he slowly raised his hand, and then I touched it on the neck and looked under the firelight, my fingers were wet and dewy, but there was nothing there, just a handful of cold water.

Tie Guanyin looked up for a while, doubts suddenly arose, he gave up the idea of ​​looking around, and sat down cross-legged again. In fact, they had carefully looked around, except for the zenith of the grotto. It is not surprising that water seeps from the cracks on the top of the grotto, but it is a bit unusual for water to seep under the big stone lamp. Is there a ghost behind the stone lamp? Did the masons who built the stone lanterns stand on the ladder and beat?Or stand on the ledge of the zenith and thwart? "Brother, can I take a step to talk?" Tie Guanyin was thinking with his head down, when Daoist Huang came over at some point, and asked him quietly in his ear.

"What's the best opinion of the Taoist priest, but it's okay, why don't we go on the same road again? If it's really the dead ghost Ba Fangzi's ecstasy formation ghost hit the wall, if we go on like this, I'm afraid we won't find a fork in three days and three nights .” Tie Guanyin glanced at his nephew while speaking. The nephew turned sideways, his waist and shoulders undulating, as if he was already snoring, so he didn't think about it, and just spoke directly. Daoist Huang didn't answer directly, but took off his robe first, and covered his nephew.

"We missed the fork because one of the three of us was a ghost!" Huang Daochang shrugged his white bearded chin, and pointed to the back of Tie Guanyin's nephew. "Impossible, our comrades have known the basics for many years, and we belong to the same family, how could he harm me!" "It's not that he harmed you, but the ghost on his body is playing tricks on us!" "Why do you know? My nephew is a bit honest and reckless, but he can still tell the difference between a ghost and a human! Besides, he has been following us as we move forward in the acupoints."

"But when we returned, he was always in front, and we missed the fork by following him." "Oh! You mean that my nephew was possessed by a ghost after he got lost, then you fainted in the Sky Eye Grotto, and then woke up in the wine cellar, and you disappeared once out of thin air. Could it be that the ghost couldn't get on you? " "Your nephew didn't happen to get lost in the acupoint. It was the moment you pulled me up at the entrance of the wine cellar, and he let Ba Fangzi's concubine take the opportunity to get on me." "Oh, if that's the case, the Taoist priest has been doing ghosts for a lifetime. The Taoist robe with the charm can plug my nephew's ears and can't hear us. Why don't you just catch the ghost on him and give him back Innocent."

"Ba Fangzi's serving concubine is profound and has a fierce spirit. If I do it now, I'm afraid I will hurt your nephew. Besides, your nephew's soul has been taken away by that evildoer in a copper pot. My brother wants If you want to rescue your nephew, you can only go forward but not back, and you have no choice but to overcome the resistance and try to get into Ba Fangzi's heaven and earth palace." "According to the opinion of the Taoist priest, my ghost nephew must know the fork into the Tianjudi Palace, but he just deliberately led us to go around in a circle in a daze. The Taoist priest means that we should hide first, and then wait for my ghost nephew to return. Look for it later, if he can't find it, he will think that we have entered the fork, he will go straight to the fork, and we will follow." Tie Guanyin said smoothly.

"Tie Guanyin is Tie Guanyin after all. He has the ability to communicate with the gods. After entering the Tianjudi Palace, I will definitely ask that long-haired evildoer to get back your nephew's soul and restore his innocence. It's just that you have to do it now, brother." The next ruthless hand, stab him! Hehe!" Tie Guanyin didn't believe the nonsense of Taoist Zodiac at first, he just wanted to go with the flow and deal with it. If his nephew is a little ghost, then the old man must be a big ghost. Guanyin was quite surprised. "Why do you want to do this? For those of us who go to the grave to make money, bleeding in the tomb is the most taboo. Once the ghost smells the blood of a person, it will cheat the corpse! You don't know it, but please tell me!"

"We are only on the road now. This is not Ba Fangzi's Heavenly Judicial Palace. The blood will not be dangerous. Let's put it this way, your nephew may have been poisoned by Ba Fangzi's imperial concubine. His soul The old way, I risk my life to get it back. I know a thing or two about Gu poison, but I don’t study it deeply, and there is no antidote at all, so I can’t recover from it. Brother, let’s do it. It’s still too late. Once the Gu poison spreads, he will really become a Ghost." It is said that the concubines of Ba Fangzi are not the middle class of Tianzi Kingdom, because they are good at bewitching and poisoning, most of them are masters of demagogy in the south of Shanxi, so they were recruited by Ba Fangzi as concubines and internal guards , more importantly, Ba Fangzi himself is not only proficient in alchemy, he has an extraordinary talent and extraordinary ability in the preparation of Gu poison, and the Gu poison he prepared has a wide spread, and one person is as good as If the whole family dies, a hundred out of ten people will die, and an army out of a thousand will be defeated. Even King Ba is afraid of him. It is said that King Ba is just a puppet of him. The strange art is related to the downfall of the Shuyufu Kingdom in Cuba.

Zodiac Master's explanation made Tie Guanyin think of the dozens of bones in the ear chamber of the grotto, and he couldn't help shivering. "Of course, I don't have to worry about my nephew. The old Taoist thought that my nephew was just poisoned by the concubine's ecstasy and was acting for the ghost. The nephew will not be fatal in a day or two. We must seize the time and opportunity." ah!" Tie Guanyin left behind his nephew, who had fallen asleep after losing blood, and Huang Laodao retreated in front of Ba Fangzi's giant face, and found a corner to hide in the passageway when they came in.

Sure enough, as Huang Laodao expected, soon after my nephew woke up, he lit the fire drill and looked around. When he lost sight of his uncle and the Taoist priest, he yelled a few times and no one answered, jumped up, held the fire drill, and ran. I went back and forth to the two ear chambers and the Tianyan Grotto, but failed to find it, so I jumped into Ba Fangzi's mouth, quickly ran out, and burrowed into the Tianyan Grotto on the forehead of the giant face. Huang Daochang and Tie Guanyin didn't dare to start the fire, they followed quietly, they didn't dare to breathe in the dark, and they didn't dare to follow too closely, they followed their nephew from a distance to feel the fire light in the acupoint .

Tie Guanyin thought, could it be that my nephew was really poisoned by a ghost? Is everything the old Taoist said true? If they were all haunted by ghosts, wouldn't I be caught in the trap again if I followed them?Or a deadly ambush? Will there be secrets that they have not discovered in the crevices of the dripping stones behind the stone lamp panel on the zenith of the grotto? Were all the masons who built the stone lamp, Ba Fangzi's giant face, and the Tianjudi Palace poisoned to death by Ba Fangzi? If there are survivors, where will they escape? Thinking of this, Tie Guanyin slowed down his groping in the dark. Gradually, the flames of his nephew and the shadow of the Zodiac disappeared in front of him. Gourd Grotto, standing under the stone lamp panel where the water dripped just now, threw out the yin and yang hook, hung the stone lamp panel, and climbed up with no effort. Tie Guanyin followed the traces of water under the stone lamp pan, and touched the somewhat greasy crevices of the zenith stone all the way. The water source under the lamp panel came from a crack in an irregular hexagonal boulder. He pushed it hard, and it became a little loose. Then he was startled. The kick was crooked, and a stream of stagnant water gushed out instantly, wetting his trouser legs. Tie Guanyin took a closer look, and at a glance, a secret passage that could only accommodate one person appeared in front of Tie Guanyin.