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Ling Li took Hua Kai to find two Taoist priests for help.However, tonight was the new moon, and one of them was injured. The Taoist priests were not willing to act rashly, until they heard that someone was trapped in the underground palace.

Ling Li and they walked around from the left side of the Netherworld Palace to the main entrance, taking a relatively spacious road, with five or six meter tall sycamore trees growing on both sides.Although there are street lights every ten meters, most of them are blocked by branches and leaves, and they cannot illuminate all places.

Ling Li bloomed with flowers, but couldn't find a place to put him.The underground palace is dangerous, so naturally it is not suitable to bring the young man in. When he was in distress, Tao Rujiu came to his mind again.

Is he wandering outside the underground palace now because he has no mana?Or has already rashly broken into the underground palace, or even become a victim of resentful souls?No, he should still be protected by that silver mask, right?With that ghost, what else can I worry about.

Laughing at his boredom, he picked up his pace even more.

At the end of the road, the towering wall of the underground palace was born, and a small road was attached to the wall.Several street lamps on the side were broken at some point.

When everyone walked to the path, the sycamore tree quickly blocked almost all the lights, and it was clear that there was no breeze, but the air suddenly became cold, and they held Huakai's hand sharply and subconsciously, and the two Taoists immediately whispered : There is resentment!

As soon as the words fell, Huakai let out an "ah", and in turn grabbed the fierce sleeves tightly.The man looked in the direction he pointed, and there was a crooked water stain in front of him.

Tao Rujiu and Maoxian looked at each other, and they both heard the same sound.It was not the sound of running water, but a muffled knocking sound.

"The sound of knees hitting wooden boards." Maoxian said softly, "It came from inside."

It pointed to a huge coffin not far away.

"Master Lu is probably in there."

Tao Rujiu nodded, stepped lightly, and walked over slowly.

This is a deep black coffin, more than two meters long and nearly 1.5 meters high.The slightly tilted ends of the boat are carved with patterns of Ganoderma lucidum and floating clouds.Below is the word "Shou" in gold lacquer.The coffin was placed on the Gen position in the northeast, so it was considered to be the location of the ghost gate, and naturally it was also the position of the chief priest of the Eight Diagrams Formation.Tao Rujiu saw an incense burner and two empty plates for offering sacrifices on the coffin board.

If you want to remove the coffin board, you must first remove these sacrificial vessels.

In the coffin, the sound of slight collisions continued.This made Tao Rujiu even more nervous.He has seen some horror movies, and he has seen scenes where people are suffocated to death in coffins.If I don't act quickly, will Master Lu be suffocated inside?Although he didn't know the answer, the hand that reached out to the sacrificial vessel was already trembling a little.

"This coffin is very spacious, Master Lu will be fine for a while." Qi Maoxian saw his worry, and comforted him, "If it is not buried in the soil, it will be fine."

Only then did Tao Rujiu nodded again, focusing on picking up the sacrificial utensils on the coffin.However, as soon as the hand touched the incense burner, a cold and damp feeling immediately spread from the fingertips. "These things are covered with water!" He shuddered unconsciously, and the cat fairy simply jumped on his shoulder to check.

"This is not dew, the other coffins are all dry." It whispered, "It must be ghost water, it seems that Wang Baihu's head is also very likely hidden in this coffin. You have to be more careful!"

Hearing what he said, Tao Rujiu took a few deep breaths, mechanically moved the sacrificial vessel to the ground, and found several wriggling maggots in the two plates.With one person and one cat, it is even more certain that Wang Baihu's rotten head should also be squeezed into this big coffin with Master Lu.

"Wait."

Just when Tao Rujiu reached out to push the lid of the coffin, Maoxian suddenly jumped onto the coffin and held his hand. "It's dangerous for you to open it like this. Let me make a net first, in case ghosts suddenly jump out and hurt people."

As he spoke, he muttered again, and walked back and forth on the coffin lid a few times.In the end, he jumped back onto Tao Rujiu's shoulder and ordered, "Open the coffin."

The wooden coffin lid was extremely heavy, and Tao Rujiu had to gather strength two or three times before pushing it halfway open.As expected, feet wearing sandals were exposed inside, and on top were beach shorts that the old man liked, and the hem of a white undershirt.

But Wang Baihu's head could not be seen.

"Master Lu..." Tao Rujiu called out anxiously, the old man twitched slightly, but there was no answer for a long time.Immortal Qimao simply jumped into the coffin, inspected it briefly, then raised her head and said, "No big problem, maybe I was overly frightened."

Tao Rujiu straightened up slightly and took a breath, waiting for the cat fairy to jump out of the coffin before helping Master Lu out. As long as the old man is taken out of the palace, everything else can be postponed and left to the Taoist priests to complete.

Thinking of this, he immediately felt relieved, completely unaware that Wang Baihu's head appeared behind him without anyone noticing.

In the coffin, Qi Maoxian decided to climb out of the coffin after inspecting Master Lu's condition.

Originally, it was going to be lazy and let Tao Rujiu carry it out, but it barked a few times but the young man didn't respond.

It suddenly felt that something was wrong, and when it was about to climb out, the coffin lid closed less than one centimeter above its head, completely isolating the outside world all of a sudden.

"Damn..." It cursed aloud, but all it could do was scratch the coffin wall with its claws, praying that Tao Rujiu would survive until Ling Li and the Taoist priests arrived safely.

Tao Rujiu suddenly felt a chill behind him.

It wasn't the feeling of being blown by the wind, it was more like approaching a huge cave, and the cold air surrounded him from behind.

Although he has no mana, he understands what it means.

There was no time to look back, he dodged to the side desperately, lost his balance and rolled a few times on the woodland, and suddenly heard a loud sound of water, when he looked up, the lid of the coffin was pushed back by the water rising from the ground in situ.Where he was standing just now, a huge stream of water gushed out from the ground, and Wang Baihu's head could be vaguely seen in the stream, grinning at him.

Ling Li and Hua Kai stopped.Two Taoist priests sandwiched them one after the other.Together with the diamond wall on the left, three relatively solid barriers are formed, leaving only a row of phoenix trees on the right.The stream of water indicated by the blooming flowers meanders under the sycamore tree.Snakes usually come crawling.

"Monster... show up soon!"

The Taoist shouted, lifting the wooden sword in his hand and dancing in the air.Ling Li didn't see any major changes in the water flow, but the sound of "rustling" sounded from the dense canopy of sycamore trees.

The Taoist muttered something, then reached into the cloth bag on his waist and sprinkled the yellow powder over it. The canopy vibrated more and more violently, and slowly, sharply saw a blue-white hand protruding from the leaves of the sycamore tree. , grabbed the trunk of the tree, followed by another arm.These two arms stretched out from the back of the big tree and hugged the tree tightly.Wet groundwater trickled down the arm, hung on the sycamore tree, and seeped a pool of black stains in the soil.

Hua Kai had never seen such a scene before, and her legs went limp in fright.Ling Li held him in his arms and watched how the Taoist would do it.

The two Taoist priests looked at each other, one of them made a seal around the tree, and the other walked straight towards the plane tree holding his sword.

The resentful soul on the tree obviously sensed the existence of the Taoist priest, so he simply moved slowly and appeared from behind the tree.

It really was Wang Baihu's upper body.Soaked in water to take on a bleached color.When it was slowly exposed to the light, Ling Li saw a sparrow stuffed in the center of the brown scar on its neck, it should have been caught in the canopy just now.He saw its wound slowly wriggling and swallowing the sparrow. The sparrow struggled a few times at first, and finally disappeared into its dark brown body cavity little by little.Ling Li covered the blooming eyes, trying to suppress the feeling of nausea.

The Taoist reached out and grabbed a few handfuls of powder and threw it at the corpse, which obviously annoyed the resentful soul. Ling Li saw it tear off a large piece of bark with both hands, and then rushed towards the Taoist under the tree in a rage.

The Taoist retreated two steps quickly, but his movements were far less swift than that of the corpse.Seeing that the resentful soul was about to pounce on the Taoist priest, there seemed to be an invisible barrier in midair, which bounced the resentful soul back hard.It was only then that Ling Li realized that it should be the effect of the knot seal built by another Taoist priest.

The resentful soul was restrained by the seal in a narrow area with the tree as the center, like a caged animal.It crawled on the ground, and the bird it swallowed just now turned into a mixture of feathers, bone and blood, continuously leaking out from under the abdominal cavity.The two Taoist priests stood just outside the knot seal, and sprinkled the crushed soybeans on the corpse.The purpose is to subdue the resentment after weakening it.

This may seem like an invincible strategy, but it is still the safest strategy.In particular, one of the Taoist priests is still injured, so it is not suitable for a direct confrontation.

Ling Li took the flowers to a safe place, and wanted to wait for the matter to end. However, although the resentful soul struggled, there was no sign of weakness. On the contrary, the Taoist powder and seals had a very limited time limit. It is possible to be completely reversed.

The two Taoist priests understood in their hearts, and when they were confused, they suddenly saw the water stains on the ground, and one of them suddenly realized: "The hostility of this water flow is the source of the power of the resentful soul, and it needs to be cut off!"