Crossing the wilderness to survive, starting with a broken kitchen knife.

Near the altar, Zhao Feng was concentrating on fiddling with the relic.

Zhang Shi noticed that a ball of black mist surged out of his body and gradually condensed into an evil spirit without a lower body.

Zhang Shi was shocked. He didn't expect that the culprit who caused his teammates to disappear inexplicably had already infiltrated their side.

The evil spirit floated behind Zhao Feng, opening its bloody mouth as if to swallow him whole.

The evil spirit seemed invisible to the naked eye, and the foursome paid no attention to it.

Zhang Shi’s only goal was to find his teammates and evacuate them safely. As for this strange copy, whoever wanted to explore it could do so. Zhang Shi had no intention of continuing.

Now that the culprit had been found, Zhang Shi didn't intend to hide it anymore. He picked up Lao Duan with a fierce look on his face and rushed to the evil spirit in one step. With one stroke of his knife, he cut it into two pieces.

"The mantis stalks the cicada, but the oriole follows behind!"

Zhang Shi put away his knife and unexpectedly discovered that the evil spirit had transformed into black mist again and returned to Zhao Feng's body.

The foursome were still busy with their own things, exploring around the altar, completely unaware that they had experienced a life-and-death crisis.

Zhang Shi frowned and stared at Zhao Feng for a long time. Even with the naked eye, he couldn't detect the presence of the black fog.

"Things should have changed by now. I just need to stay with everyone and act as a bodyguard."

The water in this village is too deep, and it is beyond his current control. Zhang Shi made up his mind to follow his teammates, figure out his current situation, and evacuate immediately if he finds a way to evacuate.

After some exploration, the foursome discovered the existence of a secret passage again.

Several people worked together to push open the stone slab, and then carefully entered the secret passage to explore.

As expected, the shadow appeared next to the altar, staring at the place where Zhang Shi was just now, as if looking for something.

"What are you looking at your dad for?"

Since the effect has already occurred, Zhang Shi is not afraid of being exposed and chops the phantom's head with a kitchen knife.

The phantom showed no reaction to Zhang Shi's words and actions, and was beheaded by Lao Duan with a single blow.

"what!"

The shadowy figure's head fell to the ground, uttering a scream and looking in Zhang Shi's direction in horror. Zhang Shi squatted down and chopped its head into pieces, until it turned into a pool of dirty water.

Zhang Shi tried to collect the sewage with a container, but the sewage still had its own consciousness. It avoided Zhang Shi and quickly reorganized in the distance.

"Whoever is sneaking around, show yourself if you can."

The shadow stuck to the side of the altar, looking over here cautiously.

Zhang Shi was now very sure that the voice was from the strange creature that had fought with him in the secret room, but its appearance was a little different from that time and was not as solid as the last time he saw it.

Knowing that these monsters possessed extremely strong self-healing abilities, Zhang Shi stopped wasting his energy on useless tasks and instead took out the holy silver crossbow arrow he had obtained from the well from his backpack.

Zhang Shi was standing right in front of the strange creature, drawing his bow and arrow, but it could neither see nor hear anything. Even when the holy silver crossbow arrow flew towards its head, it did not notice it at all. It was pierced by the crossbow arrow and turned into a pool of dirty water again.

Similar to the black tiger's reaction, black mist also emanated from the sewage transformed by the strange creature. The black mist penetrated the crypt and drifted towards the village.

The sewage still hadn't completely settled, slowly gathering in one place, seemingly about to regroup. Zhang Shi stepped forward, picked up the Holy Silver Crossbow, and intended to strike while he was weak.

Unexpectedly, the strange creature seemed to be on guard. This time, it didn't even reorganize its body. It directly seeped into the ground and disappeared.

Seeing this, Zhang Shi gave up the pursuit and quickly went into the secret passage to reunite with the group of four.

The four people in the secret room had already been disturbed by the noise outside.

The strange creature was howling in agony after being beaten by Zhang Shi. The four-man team was already standing guard at the door of the secret room vigilantly, holding weapons and staring at the direction of the secret passage intently.

Zhang Shi guessed that the strange creature was seriously injured and would not show up again in the short term, so he squatted in the secret room, waiting for the next move of the four-person team.

The foursome stayed alert for a while, and seeing that there was no unusual movement, they put away their weapons, opened the treasure chest, and successfully obtained two [Soul-Binding Bells].

The light faded, and the treasure chest disappeared. The foursome focused their attention on the bell and didn't notice anything strange about the base where the treasure chest was placed.

This was Zhang Shi's second visit to the ancestral hall, and he immediately noticed that the patterns on the stone platform were exactly the same as those on the stone platform used to place tablets in the underground palace of the ancestral hall.

After the group of four left, Zhang Shi carefully knocked on the stone platform according to the rhythm of the shadow knocking on the tombstone.

"Snapped!"

A secret compartment appeared in the stone platform. As Zhang Shi had expected, there was a tablet and a porcelain pot inside.

Zhang Shi glanced at the owner of the tablet, Huo Xiuxiu, who appeared to be a woman. He then carefully examined the porcelain pot, but to his surprise, as soon as his fingers touched the pot, he felt a piercing chill.

Zhang Shi quickly withdrew his hand, noticing a layer of frost on his knuckles. Realizing there was something wrong with the porcelain pot, Zhang Shi didn't dare touch it any further, so he closed the compartment and left.

Zhang Shi took a quick glance and unexpectedly found something inside the cover of the secret compartment.

Zhang Shi took out an oil lamp and, by the light, saw strange rune-like symbols carved on the cover.

Zhang Shi studied it for a while and felt that some of the runes were similar to the Taoist soul-calming talismans, and he had some guesses in his mind.

Without doing anything rash, Zhang Shi, adhering to the principle of less trouble is worse than more, closed the secret compartment, quickly left the secret room and caught up with the group of four.

This time, without the attack of strange creatures, the journey was smooth.

Zhang Shi, one of the four, used Lao Duan to destroy the stone cover. The four of them walked out of the dungeon safely. The black fog outside had dissipated, and the four of them left excitedly towards the ancestral hall.

Zhang Shi did not go back immediately, but came to the highest point of the hill and looked towards the cave. This look gave him a clue.

Looking from a high place, the densely packed tombs are arranged in a regular pattern, surrounding Huo Youming's tomb in the center. Looking at the pattern, it is similar to the placement of tablets in the underground palace of the ancestral hall, as if they are arranged into some kind of formation.

Zhang Shi felt that the village was becoming increasingly unusual, and he did not dare to get involved, so he hurriedly caught up with the group of four and returned to the village ancestral hall.

In the ancestral hall, Black Tiger saw the four people return safely, and there was a hint of surprise in his copper-bell-like tiger eyes.

"Come back so soon?"

Zhang Shi, one of the four, handed one of the soul-binding bells to Hei Hu.

"This is what you want."

Black Tiger swallowed the bell in one gulp and paced back and forth in front of him, seemingly thinking about something.

Zhang Shi did not stop, but quietly entered the underground palace of the ancestral hall and took out Master An's porcelain bottle.

Seeing that Black Tiger was acting a little strangely, the four of them sensed danger and took a few steps back, spreading their positions further apart.

Finally, the black tiger seemed to have made up its mind and let out a long roar.

The door of the ancestral hall suddenly closed, and a black wind swept through the courtyard for no apparent reason.

"Now that you're here, don't leave!"

The black tiger moved as fast as lightning as it pounced towards Wu Qing, the only woman in the field. Its sharp claws were like knives, aiming straight for her throat.