Hailing barren city

"what!"

Xiao Li yelled that he was about to drop the phone, but Tao Rujiu quickly snatched it away. He yelled desperately to let Master Lu go back, but there was only a noisy howling sound in the phone, which soon stopped Wire.

The Qimao Immortal who hadn't made a sound for a long time immediately ran out of the Cuiying Pavilion, Tao Rujiu followed closely behind it, Zheng Qinglong and Xiao Li also rushed behind them when they realized it, and the rest of them remembered the two spirit-killers. The Taoist priest hurriedly called Ling Li.

"Today is the first day of the new moon, and it is the time when the yin is at its heaviest in the middle of the month. It is very annoying if something happens." On the way, Qi Maoxian said, "The remaining two resentful souls in the underground palace area should not be able to break through the King Kong so quickly. The siege of the wall, there must be something wrong with it.”

Tao Rujiu gasped and said, "Anyway, let's find Master Lu first."

Just as they were talking, the two of them had already rushed to the imperial city in one go.Chase forward along the dark red swimming wall.After a while, Maoxian stopped abruptly.He sternly stopped Tao Rujiu.

"Watch your step!"

Tao Rujiu was stunned and slowed down, only then did he notice a thin water mark on his feet.

"This is probably where Master Lu was standing just now." Qi Maoxian said seriously, "Look, you can see the underground palace in front of you."

Tao Rujiu looked up, and the high wall illuminated by mercury lamps stood out in the darkness.

The big white cat signaled him to be careful to avoid the current, slowed down and continued to walk forward.

After about ten steps, there was a gap in the floating wall of the imperial city, and a large puddle of water marks accumulated on the ground. After a closer look, the water marks even spread to the wall, and some unknown light-colored objects remained in it.The cat fairy asked Tao Rujiu to pick it up and look at it carefully, and said in a muffled voice, "It's maggots."

"Wang Baihu's head should have been hiding here just now," it explained, "it used the gap to hide the smashed half of its head, only revealing the better half, taking advantage of the cover of night to lure Master Lu to follow He goes."

Tao Rujiu said sadly, "I would have told Master Lu about Wang Baihu if I knew about it."

The big white cat shook his head and said: "You don't want to make him sad. And judging from the current situation, the underground water has not gushed out on a large scale. The resentful souls need to lure Master Lu back to the underground palace to proceed to the next step. We rush there now , maybe there is still a remedy."

Tao Rujiu nodded, at this time Xiao Li and Zheng Qinglong also caught up.Maoxian asked Tao Rujiu to explain to them what they need to pay attention to, and the four of them ran towards the main entrance of the underground palace.

The main entrance of the underground palace is brightly lit by two mercury lamps on the left and right.The closed vermilion lacquered front door was opened with a mouth wide enough for a person at some point, and a hunchbacked black figure was holding a huge bamboo broom, slowly sweeping the groundwater overflowing from the door to the street outside.

"The reason has been found." Qi Maoxian said bitterly.

Ling Li received the call and immediately set off to find the two Taoist priests.Because he was worried about leaving the flowers outside, he took him with him.And Dongli Bupo, who had been following behind him all the time, after hearing the situation of the underground palace, lowered his head and thought for a while, then left the two of them silently.

The main entrance of the underground palace.

"He's the old man who guards the gate of the underground palace!" Xiao Li exclaimed in surprise, "Don't he know what's going on in the underground palace?"

When everyone got closer, the black figure showed its face, and it really was a hunchbacked old man.

"Xiao Li, take him aside, don't let him touch the water again!" Tao Rujiu walked up vigorously, pulled the old man to the side of the road, and took the broom from his hand.Xiao Li and Zheng Qinglong also followed, carefully pushing the old man aside.

"Master Lu should have already entered the gate." Qi Maoxian urged, "We must hurry up!" He was the first to rush into the vermilion lacquered gate, Tao Rujiu followed closely behind it.Xiao Li and Zheng Qinglong held the old man, the other collected the water with a broom, and waited outside the door for any movement.

Inside the Netherworld Palace, it turned into another appearance.

It's not just the mess and water marks all over the ground, all the sets in the underground palace are out of place, as if the whole land is floating on the water.What appeared in front of Tao Rujiu was no longer a screen wall full of reminders, but a strange grove.

"Sanghun Slope has been moved here."

Qi Maoxian said in a low voice, "The water marks on the ground are still wet, so Master Lu should not have gone far. There are eight coffins in this forest, and it is very likely that Master Lu or the real ghost is hiding in one of them. You have to be careful. "

As it said that, it suddenly muttered something, and at the end Tao Rujiu stretched out his right hand in front of it.He bit off the tip of his tongue again, and wiped the blood on the young man's palm.

"This seal made with my blood can exorcise evil spirits and suppress ghosts. If a ghost attacks you, you can hit it on the top of its head and temporarily disperse its soul.

Tao Rujiu carefully withdrew his hand, one person and one cat re-examined the forest in front of him.Under the reflection of the pale light on the far wall, several coffins of different sizes and shapes were vaguely parked in the woods.

"This forest is roughly circular, so you go clockwise and I open the coffin counterclockwise. Do you understand?"

Nodding in agreement with Maoxian's suggestion, Tao Rujiu knew he had no choice.I don't have any experience in exorcising ghosts, all I can rely on is the symbol drawn by the cat fairy on his hand.But if Master Lu lost his life because of his retreat, then he would never forgive himself easily.

It was like the day when I saw Wang Baihu fall into the rolling water on the third floor of the underground palace.

Weeds grew up to the ankles on the ground of the forest, and the water flow completely penetrated into the soft soil, and gradually no traces could be seen.Tao Rujiu held back his fear and walked towards Po Dong.He felt the loud buzzing of mosquitoes bumping against his bare arms.The air is humid and slightly hot, even carrying a rancid smell.The mottled light shadows under the lush canopy above the head are projected on the trunk and the ground, like countless weird faces.

He took a few steps forward, and the first coffin soon appeared in front of him.

Tao Rujiu approached quietly, it was a small coffin about three feet long, showing a light color in the night.Cao Rujiu understood that this size would never be able to fit Master Lu's body, but Wang Baihu's head was still very likely to be hidden inside.His hands trembled a little, but he still used his strength slowly to push open the lid of the coffin that was slightly raised at both ends.

A pungent smell of wax oil came out.Tao Rujiu took a slight step back, took a deep breath and then looked in.

The first thing I saw were two white sticks with thick wrists.Looking up again, a pair of small dark embroidered shoes are tied on the top of the stick.

These are the legs of a child.

Tao Rujiu opened the coffin little by little, and then saw a small satin dress with a child's arm on the side.Although the furnishings are made of wax, realistic corpse spots and signs of gradual decay can still be seen.

The theme of the existence of the Netherworld Palace is to create terror, and just describing the whole process after death can shock most people who love life.

Tao Rujiu didn't look at the little girl's head again.Because the remaining space in the coffin cannot accommodate Wang Baihu's head.He slowly pushed the coffin up, waiting for the pungent wax smell to disappear little by little.And at this moment, a white mass jumped onto the coffin lid without a sound, almost touching his arm.

"I just found out." Qi Maoxian said depressingly, "I can't push those heavy covers off at all. Let's act together."

Tao Rujiu nodded dumbfoundingly.

Perhaps Tao Rujiu's sense of fear was obviously relieved with the support of the cat fairy.He silently walked to the next coffin, which was a slightly larger coffin, also painted with very delicate patterns.Pushing open the lid, there lay a male corpse wearing a Qing Dynasty official uniform, his face was covered with white paper, and his facial features could not be seen.To be cautious, Qimao Fairy asked Tao Rujiu to remove the layer of paper.

"No. Keep looking."

The eight coffins in the forest are arranged in the shape of gossip, which is not only for people to enjoy, but also has a meaning of "promotion and fortune".Bold tourists can stand in the open space in the middle of the forest, and then the staff in the forest dressed as Taoist priests will activate the mechanism to perform the so-called "blessing".With the desire for money, this program was once a major income-generating item in the underground palace area.However, its dark and weird nature is fully exposed at this moment.

Tao Rujiu opened the three coffins one after another, but got nothing.The surrounding was terribly quiet, and he even began to doubt whether Wang Baihu and Master Lu were really in this forest.

At this moment, he heard an extremely slight sound.