Uncle Jiu's Senior Brother

As the bamboo raft continued to move, they finally saw light ahead and the two rowed out of the water cave.

What comes into view is a larger cave with many stalactites on the top of the cave and water dripping down continuously.

There were also stone pillars rising from the ground. Looking closely, there were actually black shadows among the stone pillars.

When Partridge Whistle moved the torch closer, he discovered that the dark shadows inside were actually people with distorted faces.

It’s cremation again. Only someone who died of suffocation and fear would have such a distorted face.

"careful!"

Lu Li pulled away the partridge whistle near the stone pillar.

A small stone that was almost invisible to the naked eye hit the place where Partridge Whistle had just stood.

Then countless small stones some flew towards the two of them, and some flew towards the shadows on the wall.

Lu Li dodged, while Partridge Whistle held up the Vajra Umbrella behind him, with a ding-ding sound.

Some of the stones missed, while others were avoided by the two men.

"Master Lu, what made this stone?"

Lu Li observed the surroundings and said, "I only know that it came from the direction of the stalactites above!"

Then two more groups of the same stones flew over, obviously trying to keep the two here.

But this time the stones seemed to be prepared and were all thrown in the direction of Partridge Whistle.

Although the Vajra Umbrella was strong, it could not withstand the stones coming from all directions. Finally, a stone missed and hit Partridge Whistle's shoulder.

"Well!"

Partridge Whistle groaned, and suddenly felt his arms go numb and sore, his head start to ache, and his muscles began to cramp.

He then fell to the ground. Seeing that he was in a bad condition, Lu Li quickly turned into lightning and jumped over, and used the lightning to form a protective shield to protect the two of them.

By temporarily isolating the stones, Lu Li also had time to check on Partridge Whistle's injuries.

When I tore open his collar, I saw a small hole the size of a gravel on his shoulder. When I pried it open with my fingernail, I found a small grain of sand inside the flesh.

Lu Li suddenly realized at this moment that it was this thing.

This substance is also called "stream poison" by some people.

If hit, the symptoms may be convulsions, headache, fever, etc. In severe cases, it may be fatal.

After the sand and stones were taken out, Partridge Whistle's frown relaxed.

The severe pain in my head just now also returned to normal.

"Master Lu, what am I doing?"

"You were hit by the river poison. I have already picked it out for you. With your body, you will be fine after resting for a while."

Partridge Whistle was confused. "Stream poison? Is that the thing that shot the pebbles just now?"

"Yes, there is an idiom you may have heard of called 'Hansha Sheyin', which means that the poison of the stream will shoot at a person or a person's shadow. Some people also call it 'Yu' (fourth tone of Yu). If you are hit by the sand and gravel it emits, you will get sores, headaches, or even die."

"Then how do we get there?"

"It lives in water, so we use fire to deal with it."

After saying that, Lu Li took out two fire talismans and two wind talismans. The fire talisman flew out and turned into a ball of fire. Lu Li then activated the wind talisman, and the wind helped the fire. A sea of ​​fire appeared in the cave.

The stalactites above were also dried up and fell down, smashing to pieces on the ground, and the toads clinging to them naturally died.

Partridge Whistle finally stood up and said, "I never thought there would be such strange bugs here. If I'm not careful, I'm going to die here."

Lu Li sighed: "There are all kinds of things in the world, these are not surprising."

The two continued to move forward along the path in the cave. Although they knew that they were in the underwater space of Mengdong River, they did not feel short of oxygen.

This shows how skilled the people who built this tomb were.

Not only that, Feng Shui also doesn't work here.

No matter how powerful you are, you cannot judge the feng shui of a place by looking at an underground cave.

With his cultivation level, Lu Li only felt that he was walking along the river towards the east.

There is no telling whether it is day or night here, but we can calculate according to the time.

It should have been six hours since they came in.

The two found an open space, lit a fire and began to rest.

"Partridge Whistle, what do you want to do now that your curse has been lifted?" Lu Li wanted to know whether Partridge Whistle would go abroad in the future.

Partridge Whistle answered frankly, "You saved my life, so of course I will follow you from now on."

Lu Li persuaded, "You have your own life. I saved you because we are destined to be together. You have already done me a great favor by accompanying me to the White Nose Tomb this time. Go do what you like. You still have fellow apprentices to take care of."

Partridge Whistle had a conflicted expression. If he didn't have any junior brothers and sisters, it wouldn't matter if he gave his life to Lu Li.

But what will they do if I leave?

"Master Lu, let me think about it, but I'm afraid I will never be able to repay you for saving my life."

"Will you go tomb raiding again in the future?"

Partridge Whistle shook his head and said, "I won't go there again. I don't like this kind of life-and-death feeling anyway."

"Remember this sentence. In fact, Taoists believe that tomb robbing is a bad thing. People are sleeping soundly, but you insist on demolishing their house. If they haven't been reincarnated, they will definitely sue you." Lu Li said with a smile.

This is different from going in to find the Fuso people yourself. One is a thief and the other is here to catch thieves.

The owner of the tomb might even thank me.

It was the first time that Partridge Whistle heard Lu Li's joke and responded with a smile.

"That's true. No one would be happy if their sleep was disturbed."

It was already late at night outside, and Lu Li was meditating with his eyes closed.

Next to him, Partridge Whistle was sleeping soundly, leaning against a large rock.

At this level, Lu Li can already use meditation to replace sleep, and the effect is better.

Lu Li's ears moved and he immediately released his spiritual sense, and found that there were several stone pillars more than one person tall hanging from the ceiling of the cave not far away.

The stone pillar was swinging back and forth towards the two of them.

At the same time, a piece of water grass was secretly put towards his neck.

"Looking for death." Lu Li said secretly.

Several talismans for exorcising ghosts had been pasted on the stone pillars at some point.

With a few gurgles, the stone pillars fell down, hit the ground, and shattered, revealing several skeletons.

"Canglang"

Partridge Whistle jumped up, drew his sword and looked around, and when he saw the skeleton on the ground, he showed a look of horror.

Because the neck of the skeleton was entangled with dry water plants, and it was unknown how long they had been entangled. After such a long time, the water plants had not rotted in this humid environment.

"No need to look at it. This is a hanged ghost, or what people call a hanged ghost. It was sealed in a stone pillar and hanged to death. It is blocking the exit of this cave and waiting for a replacement."

Partridge Whistle had only heard of this thing but had never seen it. As expected, wherever he followed Lu Li, he was filled with surprises.

Lu Li handed Queqiao Shao a few bags of dry food and said, "You're awake. Drink some water and eat some dry food. Come on, I'll show you something."

Partridge Whistle was curious about what Lu Li was going to show him, so after a simple meal, he followed Lu Li.

The two walked one after the other for a short distance before they came out of the cave.

As soon as he came out of the cave, he felt his eyes brightened. Even Lu Li, who had experienced a lot, was quite surprised.

Although it is still a cave in front of us, the space is huge. The cave is full of plants and there are hot springs that constantly emit heat.

The whole space seems to be in a fairyland.

Partridge Whistle, who was wearing a long gown, felt extremely damp and sweaty just after entering the room for a while.

Lu Li, on the other hand, didn't feel anything special, his clothes were still as clean and loose as ever.

“Who knew there was an outdoor garden like this here.”

After hearing what Partridge Whistle said, Lu Li seemed to be thinking about something.

"You may be right. This may really be the garden of the white nose."

After hearing this, Partridge Whistle was stunned, thinking that what he had said might actually be true.

"Come on, follow me."

Lu Li and Partridge Whistle finally stopped at the hot spring in the middle of the cave.

This hot spring is as big as two football fields. From time to time, boiling spring water bubbles out of it and floats into the cave with hot steam.

Looking at the deep and shallow messy footprints beside the hot spring, as well as the broken Fuso sword and traces of being crushed by unknown creatures.

Lu Li said solemnly: "Have you heard of the Nine-tailed Snake?"

"Nine-tailed snake? I haven't heard of it but I've heard of the story of the nine-tailed fox."