Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Ran Qingdeng walked to the entrance of the water cave and lit the soul-illuminating lamp in his hand.

Aqi couldn't help but said, "Didn't you say your lamp ran out of oil?"

Ran Qingdeng turned around and glared at him, saying unhappily, "Now there's another one, what's wrong with that? Is that not okay?"

Ah Qi quickly smiled and said, "Okay, okay, of course." Then he asked, "Ran Qiren, how did you know that I am the descendant of some Yu King?"

Ran Qingdeng gently shook the lamp in his hand and said, "This is the soul-illuminating lamp. Didn't I tell you?"

Aqi said: "This lamp is very ordinary. I don't think it's anything special."

Ran Qingdeng simply turned around, held the soul-illuminating lamp high in front of Aqi's face, and said, "Are you guys taking a look?"

Chu Xiaomu and Lu Linnan Ge couldn't help but look carefully to distinguish him, but they saw that it was still Aqi with an oval face and delicate features, without any change.

But Xiaoying started to giggle and said, "Brother Aqi, how come you have four hands? That's weird."

Ah Qi pushed away the soul-illuminating lamp that Ran Qingdeng was holding in front of him and said with a smile, "Three hands make me a petty thief, and four hands make me a big thief. Sister Xiaoying, are you scolding me?"

Ran Qingdeng said angrily: "You may not believe my words, but you must believe my soul-illuminating lamp!"

Aqi stuck out his tongue at Nan Ge, thinking that Ran Qingdeng had a weird temper and he must not make him angry. It would be terrible if he didn't tell him how to cure the general's madness.

Ran Qingdeng, holding the soul-lighting lamp, led four people and a horse, and walked about a hundred feet in the dark water cave. They climbed onto a dry and uneven stone, then groped and pressed a few times on the cave wall.

With a creaking sound, a narrow crack less than three feet wide appeared on the cave wall, revealing a very spacious stone cave.

Ran Qingdeng walked in and said, "Come in, everyone. Alas, everyone in the Snow White Country and your Cangmu Country knows about this place. After today, it looks like we'll have to move again..."

Xiaoying couldn't help but said, "We are not bad people. If you know, then know. You don't need to move, right?"

Ran Qingdeng simply replied: "I like quietness."

After everyone entered the narrow gap, they found a huge chamber inside, which was about 20 to 30 feet long and wide.

Ran Qingdeng casually lit the two large braziers placed in the cave, and the surroundings immediately became bright, and the surrounding situation was clearly visible.

There is a medium-sized pool on one side of the cave, and a small thatched hut is built in the pool. It looks simple and rough, and perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a shack. This should be Ran Qingdeng's usual residence.

Several people thought that Ran Qingdeng liked to live in a cave, which should be the origin of his nickname "Donglu Hermit".

There were a lot of strange objects piled up on the other side of the chamber, some that looked like millstones, some that looked like human-shaped statues without hands and feet, and some that looked like honeycomb-shaped cabinets... Xiaoying couldn't help but be curious, so she walked over to take a closer look.

Chu Xiaomu was about to tell her not to touch this strange man's things when he heard Xiaoying screaming in fear. He couldn't help but feel nervous and quickly jumped in front of Xiaoying, shielding her behind him and asked, "What's wrong?"

Xiaoying pointed in front of her and said, "Brother Xiaomu, what are these...what are these? They are so scary!"

Chu Xiaomu took a closer look and found that there was a smaller chamber behind the sundries.

Unlike the outside, there were more than ten oil lamps hung irregularly on both sides of the small cave, giving the dark cave some light. The walls of the cave were hung with dozens or even hundreds of strange corpses. Some had human-like hands and feet, some had four legs and long tails like wolfhounds, some had flat heads and long bodies like giant snakes, and many more were strange monsters that had never been seen before... and most of these corpses had been dried by the wind, making them particularly creepy under the dim light.

At this time, Aqi and Lu Linnan Ge also came over. Lu Linnan Ge snorted and said, "I have always suspected that Donglu layman killed the alien spirits, but I didn't expect it to be true!"

Ran Qingdeng said nonchalantly: "These strange spirits are evil spirits that eat and kill people. They should have been killed long ago. Besides, I have other uses for killing them, not just cruel killing."

Aqi interrupted and said, "They are dead, why don't you bury them? What's the point of keeping them here?"

Ran Qingdeng said unhappily: "It will be useless if you bury it!"

Lu Linnange frowned and said, "I heard that he wanted to explore the way of generating spiritual power... The generation of spiritual power is natural, what is there to explore?"

Ran Qingdeng said: "Where does the spiritual power come from, and how are all kinds of spiritual arts formed? There are profound principles in it. It's not what you call 'natural'. You won't understand..." He knocked on the wall twice, and the oil lamps in the small cave went out together, and nothing could be seen.

Chu Xiaomu remembered the strange spirit Ji Tuan whom he met when Yutuo City passed through Qingyuan. At that time, Lu Lin Nan Ge threatened him that he would capture him to Ran Qingdeng. Ji Tuan was very scared at that time. It turned out that he was afraid of being killed by Ran Qingdeng and becoming a tool to "explore the way of generating spiritual power."

Ran Qingdeng waded into the pool and slowly crawled into the thatched cottage.

Xiaoying had just recovered from her shock and couldn't help but say, "This guy is really weird. Why did he build the thatched hut in this dark hole, and in the water?"

Ah Qi was also very curious, so he looked at his neighbor Nan Ge and asked, "Nan Ge, do you know what the reason is?"

Lu Lin Nan Ge shook his head and said, "This man is very strange and has always lived alone. I don't know him very well."

But Ran Qingdeng's old and slow voice said, "Young people are always curious about these little things, but it's okay to tell you."

After a pause, he continued, "I am a mixed-blood person. My father is from Jinliu Island in Lanming Country, but my mother is from Yucheng in Cangmu Country. Therefore, I was born with the habits of both Cangmu Country and Lanming Country. I usually like to be in the water, but I have to sleep in a place without water on the shore. This is a natural habit that cannot be changed."

"I was born ugly and behaved differently from others. I have been treated coldly and bullied by others since I was a child. Only my mother has always loved me. Because she didn't want me to be bullied, she brought me to live in this smoke-filled land. We couldn't afford to build a house, so we had to find a stone cave to live in..."

"But I couldn't sleep in a hard stone cave, so my mother had to pick up grass stalks and branches one by one and built a small thatched hut for me. In order to avoid the evil people in the world, we had to build a thatched hut in the stone cave. This is also the reason why I am called 'Donglu Jushi'..."

"Alas, people in the world think I'm a monster, so I have to live alone, which saves me a lot of troubles... It's a pity that I've been found by you White Snow and Cangmu people again. What bad luck..."