Chapter 59: The Tomb of King Xiang 3

  Wen Baiyu was particularly excited, showing them the dagger and fur, while Shi Mou stroked his chin and smacked his lips, saying: "This is troublesome, Wan Kuang Jinghou didn't know we were coming, this sentence was obviously left for those who strayed behind, but they didn't discover it, we did."

  As soon as he opened his mouth, Tiande wanted to kick him again.

  It's clear that Gan Zhu didn't find this dagger/head, possibly because of the snowfall, it was buried too deep, and also don't know which direction Gan Zhu went.

  Yu Wei Yang suddenly said: "Look behind you."

  Everyone simultaneously looked back and saw behind them the cave they had just exited, inside which was a strange tomb filled with countless gold, silver, and jewels, yet eerily ominous.

  As they turned around, a strong gust of wind blew in, swirling snowflakes, and everything before their eyes was a blur of white. They heard a loud "whooshing" sound and couldn't help but be shocked.

  Only to see the entrance of the cave was pasted with countless yellow talismans, Wen Baiyu couldn't understand the incantations on it, he had rushed out too hastily just now and didn't notice at all, but now that he took a look, his back suddenly felt chilly.

  Densely packed talismans were constantly curling and fluttering in the strong wind, but they stuck very firmly, and not a single one was blown away by the wind.

  Looking up again, on the rock above the entrance of the cave, it seemed to be carved with something, also densely packed with words that Wen Baiyu couldn't understand, but knew were some kind of incantations similar to those used to ward off evil spirits.

  Wen Baiyu's heart sank, this cave was obviously suppressing evil spirits, and he had released that black feathered ball, wasn't this a disaster, he didn't know what would happen.

  Everyone was shocked, gazing at those talismans and saying: "These talismans are quite old."

  "Never mind, we've already come out and now have a direction, let's hurry up and go, the snow here isn't thick yet, we were able to fire our guns just now, if we go further in we won't be able to use our guns casually, who knows, one shot might trigger an avalanche and bury us alive."

  Just as he was talking, the tour guide let out a loud and shrill cry of "Ahhh!", suddenly waking him up. The beast had been annoyed by the tour guide for some time now, and the tour guide's shout was right next to his ear, almost deafening the beast.

  Who would have thought that the guide woke up to see a vast expanse of snow, and not a scary coffin, let out a sigh of relief, thinking it was just a dream. Then, he smelled a refreshing fragrance, looked up, and found himself being carried on the back of a pretty little sister.

  The tour guide suddenly felt dizzy and said with a smile: "Oh dear, this little sister..."

  He had just said that when the beast threw him to the ground and stomped on his face twice, saying: "You're my sister's husband."

  The tour guide was stunned at this time and immediately saw clearly that it was one of the bosses, losing face is really embarrassing.

  Time nodded down, smiling at the guide and said: "Hey, are you awake?"

  The guide quickly nodded and said: "Alright alright boss, what's up, give me orders!"

  "Going north, is there a distinctive tree?"

  The guide said strangely: "Tree?"

  Shi Xu nodded and said, "Ah", then asked: "Is the boss looking for that legendary rice grain?"

  Wen Baiyu said: "Rice?"

  Yu Wei Yang said: "The Shan Hai Jing says that the Kunlun Mountains in the sea are the capital of the Heavenly Emperor in the mortal world. On the mountain, there is a giant rice plant that five people can encircle with their arms, like a towering tree reaching the sky."

  The guide nodded immediately and said, "We've also heard that it's a particularly large grain of rice! However, bosses, we can't go to that place. No one has ever seen rice there before. It's said that in a very high place, those who want to find it are all gone and never return! Moreover, we don't have any livestock now, and we have to walk on foot, so we basically can't get to that kind of place."

  Shi Xu patted his hands and said, "Since there is, it's easy to handle."

  The guide said: "Boss, I also have a wife and daughter, I can't go to that place, I still want my life, if you really want to go, then I'm helpless."

  "Can't help it? Well, we can't either. Turn around and take a look at this cave, we just came out of it. The whole cave is covered in talismans and spells, I don't know if there are any evil spirits or not, but there's definitely a bunch of zombies. If you want to go back, we won't stop you. We're going forward anyway. You can try going back yourself, whether you can make it through the cave is up to your luck."

  The guide heard this and thought of himself suddenly fainting earlier, trembling non-stop, almost urinating, saying: "Th...th..."

  Shi Xu looked at Wen Baiyu and said: "Leader, shall we set off?"

  Wen Baiyu put the dragon scale dagger into his boot, then took out thick clothes from his backpack and put them on. The others also added some clothing. This place was already deep in the mountains, it was extremely cold, and when the wind blew, their faces felt like they didn't belong to themselves.

  The guide saw they were leaving, turned back to look at the cave, then looked at them, gritted his teeth, but there was nothing he could do, so he had no choice but to chase after them.

  They trudged forward, from dawn till dusk, through endless snow and increasing altitude, with winds growing stronger, howling like a ghostly wail, making every step extremely arduous.

  The guide's physical condition was very poor, and he couldn't even walk as far as Yu Wei Yang. As soon as it got dark, he shouted loudly: "We can't go on, we can't go on! The weather is going to change, I reckon there will be a heavy snowfall, we must find a place to rest, otherwise the wind and snow will sweep us away!"

  Wen Baiyu saw Yu Wei's lips turn pale and knew he was afraid of the cold, but he must be worried about Tang Zi in his heart, so he gritted his teeth and persisted.

  It's strange to say, people with good physical fitness are said to have a strong high-altitude reaction, but Yu Wei Yang has always been physically weak and had stagnant Qi, yet his high-altitude reaction is the strongest. For so many days, he still feels chest tightness and headaches, occasionally having blackouts in front of his eyes.

  Wen Baiyu looked around and said, "We need to find a place with lower elevation to rest."

  The guide looked around and suddenly pointed down, saying: "Everyone, look at that place, it's great!"

  Everyone looked down and saw that there was a valley-like place under their feet, and surprisingly, there was a lake of water on the ground. The lake reflected the sparkling moonlight, as if it hadn't frozen.

  The terrain of the canyon is relatively low, making it easier for everyone to learn.

  Everyone looked at each other and decided to go there.

  They walked down a bit further and Wen Baiyu suddenly said "Huh?" and then said: "Look, there are actually flowers by the lake!"

  Everyone stopped in their tracks and looked down, only to see that the surrounding lake water was surrounded by a circle of flowers, with tender green leaves densely growing together to form a flower cluster. The bright red flowers were so beautiful they seemed to be dripping with dew, and the flower bases were extremely large, with some already drooping down to the surface of the lake, like delicate little girls.

  The guide was also surprised. Although it's a canyon, the elevation is not low either, and snow often floats around all year round. How can there be cold-resistant flowers growing here? He had never seen them before either.

  Wen Baiyu said: "Let's go down and take a look."

  He said, leading the way down, and everyone followed in a hurry. They slid down the snowy slope and arrived at the bottom of the valley, where a large lake appeared before their eyes. The lake water had frozen in some places, but the ice was not thick, and the water was still flowing in other areas. A ring of red flowers surrounded the lake.

  The stem and leaves of the flower are too dense, and the roots on the ground cannot be seen.

  Wen Bai Yu crouched down and looked inside, saying: "The ground seems to be not snow, but something that grew out of the soil?"

  He reached out to touch it, but Shi Yu quickly stopped him and said, "Hey, don't use your hands, what if it's poisonous? Look at how bright this flower is, it's probably toxic."

  He said, picked up his rifle, inserted the muzzle into the flower cluster, and made a hard sweep.

  The stems and leaves of these flowers are covered with fine thorns. If you don't look carefully, you really can't see them. If you accidentally get scratched, it's not a joke.

  At that moment, a burst of flowers bloomed, and everyone suddenly gasped in unison, stunned. It was Wen Baiyu who first came to her senses, shouting: "Quick! Save him!"

  A cluster of flowers lay on the ground, with people scattered all over, some of whom were seen by Wen Baiyu earlier as something similar to "earth". In fact, they were these people who were lying in the snow. The delicate and charming flowers that had grown out of their bodies, with branches and leaves sprouting from their skin, and the flesh on the side was turned inside out, looking extremely disgusting and terrifying.

  Among these people, Wen Baiyu suddenly found Gan Zhu!

  Such beautiful flowers, yet they grew out of human skin, and everyone felt a chill run down their spines. The more vibrant they grew, the more nutrients they needed to absorb. On the ground, some people had already rotted away, others looked like desiccated corpses, and some had turned into piles of white bones.

  Fortunately, Gan Zhu's appearance was still okay, except for the wounds all over his body, his face was pale, his cheeks were sunken, and he didn't look as terrifying as those people beside him, he only had small flowers growing on his body.

  Gan Zhu's chest was still heaving, but he was taking in less air and exhaling more.

  The guide took one look and was instantly frightened to death. He had never seen flowers grow on a person's body before, let alone from their skin and flesh. The disgusting sight made him turn his head and vomit loudly, and after vomiting, he fainted again, conveniently falling onto his own protruding filth.

  The beast looked at him with disgust and said: "He's really disgusting all over, don't make me carry him again!"

  Wen Baiyu: "......"

  Everyone rushed to rescue Gan Zhu, several people used guns and sticks to open the flower cluster, Wen Baiyu came down, using a dagger to cut off the thorns that might prick their hands.

  Gan Zhu's appearance was somewhat disheveled, with branches and flowers growing out of his arms and legs. His face and body were covered in wounds, some of which had turned black, clearly indicating poisoning. The situation did not look optimistic.

  Wen Baiyu wanted to pull Gan Zhu out of the flower cluster, but when she poked her head in, she was startled and said, "Wait a minute..."

  "What's wrong?"

  Wen Baiyu pointed at the lake and said: "There... there's something inside..."

  He said that, and everyone leaned forward to take a look. At the sight of it, they were all startled. It wasn't just "something", but clearly a zongzi!

  All that can be seen is a thin layer of ice on the lake water near them, which looks very fragile and there is still flowing water next to it, as if the surface of the ice will melt at any time.

  Across the thin layer of ice, several pale-faced people were looking up at them with venomous eyes from under the lake water!

  These people all have seaweed-like hair, their heads submerged in the lake water, and they don't even wear clothes on their bodies. In such cold weather, they are still soaking in the icy lake water, it's absolutely impossible for them to be alive, even if they were alive initially, now they must be dead.

  Those people just looked at them with venomous eyes, and there were quite a few of them, but they didn't climb up to attack.

  He shrunk his neck and said, "What's going on here?"

  "Are they watching over this patch of flowers?"

  Yu Wei Yang said: "How can we save Gan Zhu then? Gan Zhu still has breath now and cannot be delayed any longer."

  Wen Baiyu said: "Never mind, saving people is urgent. I'll pull Gan Zhu out first, you guard the lake surface. If they come out, give them a few blows."

  Shi Xu put up his thumb and smiled: "Then let's listen to the leader."

  He said, beckoning to a few others, "This is a gorge, it's relatively narrow, we can't use guns, lest we trigger an avalanche and bury ourselves. Let's take out our blades."

  Wen Baiyu saw that they were almost ready, so she pulled hard on Gan Zhu's arm to pull him out. There were some tree vines wrapped around Gan Zhu's arm, and Wen Baiyu didn't dare to pull hard, fearing that she would scratch Gan Zhu and add new wounds.

  Wen Baiyu hastily stopped and went to cut those vines. After cutting them off, he pulled Gan Zhuo out again.

  Shi Xu suddenly said "hey" and said: "They moved."

  Wen Baiyu's heart tightened, her movements quickened, and she hastily pulled out Gan Zhuo. The moment Gan Zhuo was pulled out, Wen Baiyu saw that the place where Gan Zhuo had been lying was stained with a patch of red on the snowy ground, presumably because he had a wound on his back.

  Yu Wei Yang's beast crouched down to help Wen Bai Yu treat Gan Zhu's wound, the beast looked at his wound and said: "This won't do, Master. If we just cut off the outer tree branches, they'll grow back in a while."

  "What's to be done? Are we going to dig it open? And who knows how deep it is?"

  Just as Wen Baiyu finished speaking, Yu Wei Yang suddenly let out an "ah" and the original flower buds and small flowers were growing bigger. The red small flowers unfolded their petals, slowly getting larger, and when all the petals opened up, the flower head was facing them like a sunflower, emitting a strong fragrance.

  Wen Baiyu "hissed" as she stood up from the ground and said: "Not good, don't breathe!"

  He quickly pulled out a shovel from his backpack, chopped down the red flowers in front of him, cut off all the new red flowers that had grown on Gan Zhu's body, and then "swish swish" shoveled the snow on the ground to bury the flowers.

  Yu Wei Yang finally let out a sigh of relief and said, "That was too close."

  "Are you guys done yet? Those people are getting impatient."

  He said, "Huh?" and then said: "Damn it, he still has a tail, is he a water monster or something?"

  Just then, a loud "hahaha" sound came over, and everyone's nerves tightened. Wen Baiyu said: "This laughter..."

  Just as he was speaking, a loud "Boom" sound was heard, and a large amount of water splashed out of the lake, as if something had burst out of the water.

  A black water snake suddenly emerged from the water, with a human head on top, and hair like seaweed that also looked like a snake in the moonlight.

  The monster emerged from the water and opened its big mouth, letting out a "gaga" sinister laugh, staring at the crowd standing by the water.

  Shi Xu said with a smile: "Is this what you call 'Qiong Qiong'?"

  Although nobody has seen it before, judging from this laughter, I'd say it's probably 80 or 90 percent accurate.

  Although he had no wings, he jumped high, more fierce than flying. As the crowd retreated behind him, he reflexively wanted to hold his gun, but was afraid that the avalanche in the valley would bury them alive.

  Reached out to touch, just touched / arrived at Gan Zhu's copper ladle, stretched out a hand to pull, "eh" cried out, unexpectedly didn't pick it up, this copper ladle was unexpectedly heavy, not even two hands could pull it up.

  Time paused for a moment, and then the otter suddenly jumped out of the lake, making "hahaha" laughter sounds, rushing towards Time who was closest to him.

  Gluttony pushed him open, stretched out his hand and grabbed the copper ladle on the ground, swung his arm, and the copper ladle was thrown out with a "whoosh" sound, hitting the door of the kitchen.

  The mouth of the ugly man was "heh heh heh" sneering, not caring about the small copper basin at all. With a loud "Dong", the copper basin hit the ugly man's face squarely, his huge nose suddenly split open, and blood spurted out. The copper basin flew back due to the reaction force.

  He sprang up and stretched out his hand to catch it, then quickly withdrew backwards.

  "Hey, wife, you're too strong, gotta give your old man some face."

  He glared at him and said, "Still not running? This thick-skinned and fleshly fellow."

  His nose was smashed with a big mouth, and the fresh blood gushed out, instantly dyeing the lake water red. He seemed to have not expected to be hit either, his head swaying back and forth as if he had been momentarily stunned and couldn't react for a moment.

  Then came a loud "Boom" and Dizzy was knocked unconscious and fell into the lake.

  Wen Bai let out a sigh of relief. If it came to running away, everyone could run, but what about Gan Zhu? His body was covered in branches and leaves, and who knows what kind of flowers would bloom, and the pollen from those flowers was poisonous, making it really difficult to deal with.

  Luckily, he was stunned by a blow from behind.

  Wen Baiyu asked Yu Yang, "You've read many ancient books, have you ever seen this kind of flower?"

  Yu Wei Yang shook his head, also somewhat at a loss, Wen Bai Yu at this time couldn't help but miss Wan Kuang Jing Hou, Wan Kuang Jing Hou had seen much, forever there was nothing he didn't recognize, he would definitely think of a way to rescue them.

  But now they can only stand by helplessly.

  Shi Xiang said, "This won't do, this lake is too dangerous. There are many strange creatures with webbed feet inside, and who knows what will emerge from the depths. Let's take Gan Zhu and get a bit further away..."

  Just as he was speaking, there were several "plops" and the lake water began to splash, those strange creatures with flippers jumped onto the surface of the water.

  "You're such a jinx!"

  "This has nothing to do with me."

  Those monsters jumped out of the water, only to see that their hands and feet were all webbed, their skin was green, a bit like fish scales, but also had scabs, seaweed-like hair covered down, covering their eyes, nose, and mouth, only vaguely visible Their venomous eyes.

  As the long-tailed monster jumped out of the water, a loud "Boom" sound was heard. The dazed and confused Yuanyang also emerged from the water, making a "Ga Ga Ga" sound, but this time it was clearly not a sly laugh, but an angry roar.

  Wen Baiyu was shocked and quickly pulled Gan Zhu with Yu Wei Yang to move backwards, the beast reluctantly dragged the fainted guide, after all, it was a human life, they couldn't just abandon him.

  The crowd retreated very slowly, those long-armed monsters were still easy to deal with, the hardest to deal with was the Qiongqiong. The Qiongqiong was extremely ferocious and had been injured, its eyes were bloodshot, it was estimated that they would be eaten to vent their anger, and its skin was thick and rough, impervious to salt and oil.

  He retreated while saying: "No way, I think we have to use guns, otherwise... be careful!"

  He turned around and saw the beast suddenly rushing down, opening its huge mouth, biting towards Ziche. Ziche reacted quickly, rolling on the ground to dodge the beast's attack. Unexpectedly, the beast was extremely cunning, missing with one bite, it swung its tail, ready to hit Ziche.

  Xue Bai suddenly rushed out and pushed the child's car away. With a loud "boom", the snake tail whipped against Xue Bai's body, instantly pulling him out.

  Wen Baiyu shouted "Not good!" and saw Xue Bo's body uncontrollably flung backwards, with a loud crash, he fell into the flower bushes.

  Zi Che was startled and immediately ran over, Xue Bai's mouth corner oozed blood, his body was scratched by the thorns of the flower cluster, Zi Che stretched out his hand to support him, saying: "Father!"

  Xue Bai waved his hand and said, "Don't help me, I'm all thorns on my body, don't get pricked."

  Zi Che's heart skipped a beat, Xue Bai had already crawled out of the flower bushes by himself. His arms were covered in scratches, faintly turning blue and purple. Seeing Zi Che's expression, he smiled and said: "Good kid, I'm fine."

  At that time, Shi Xu saw Xue Bai being lifted into the air and didn't care about anything else. With a "click", he loaded his gun and fired at the culprit with a loud "bang".

  "Wen Baiyu shouted loudly: 'Hit seven inches! Hit seven inches!'"

  "Boom!"

  At the sound of the gunshot, the otter let out a loud "Ga Ga" cry, was hit by the bullet and fell back, with blood immediately gushing out from its body about seven inches away, seemingly seriously injured. With a thud, it fell onto the riverbank, crushing some of the red flowers.

  Wen Baiyu immediately let out a sigh of relief, Shi Xu's marksmanship was very accurate, and he hit the target just right. The injured monster fainted instantly, and the other long-tailed monsters were frightened at once, fleeing into the lake water and disappearing from view.

  Everyone suddenly fell silent, quietly listening to the sounds around them. The loud shouting and gunfire earlier had made everyone afraid of an avalanche, but after a while, nothing happened, and they all let out a sigh of relief.

  "Come on, we can't camp here, let's move forward."

  Everyone agreed, they dragged Gan Zhu forward, walking very far, a vast expanse of whiteness, everyone was also tired, feeling that they couldn't catch up, so they set up a tent and put Gan Zhu inside.

  "Tonight I'll be on night watch, after dinner everyone should rest quickly."

  Everyone started cooking, but at such a high altitude, the noodles couldn't be cooked, so they could only heat up canned food, gnaw on compressed biscuits. The compressed biscuits were blown by the snow and felt harder than stones. When put in the mouth, it was frozen immediately and stuck to the tongue/head, and it was really impossible to tell what the taste was like.

  Everyone was making a "hissing" sound while biting into compressed biscuits.

  Gan Zhu's condition was unstable, starting to feel some heat, and those branches and leaves began to sprout out again. Wen Baiyu felt that this wasn't the way to do it, so he decided to cut open a piece to see if he could eradicate it from the root.

  At that time, the hands and feet were very nimble, the knife was heated to redness, a mouthful was cut open on Gan Zhu's wound, and it was stirred inside. The sound of the knife cutting into the flesh was really not good to hear. Gan Zhu seemed to feel pain, suddenly opened his eyes, but there was no consciousness, and he fainted again.

  Shi Xu shook his head and said: "It's too deep, we don't have anesthetics, and it's so deep that I'm afraid of hitting an artery, a big hemorrhage would be terrible."

  Zi Che used tweezers to pull out all the thorns from Xue Bai's body, and the places where he was pricked had all turned greenish-black, clearly showing signs of poisoning. Zi Che then disinfected him, and upon hearing about Gan Zhu's situation, couldn't help but worry about Xue Bai as well.

  Xue Bai didn't dare touch Zi Che's car with his hands, but just smiled and said: "Don't worry, Uncle is fine."

  Everyone was at a loss for what to do with these flowers, and Wen Baiyu said: "But Yinyin also touched those flowers, but he's fine. Is it that Yinyin's blood or flesh has an immunizing effect?"

  "It's hard to say, maybe it's because of his thick skin and rough flesh, those scales on his body are too tough for the thorns to pierce through."

  After Shi Xue finished speaking, everyone fell silent. Were they just going to watch Gan Zhu go die like that?

  Gan Zhu's breathing was getting weaker and weaker. Since he opened his eyes just now, Wen Baiyu felt that he had already reached the point of extreme weakness and was in great pain.

  Wen Baiyu sat quietly for a while, then suddenly asked the beast: "My blood, will it work?"

  The beast was stunned for a moment, and Wen Baiyu said: "Before, Wan Kuang Jinghou's eyes were injured, Huashe said that my blood can be used. Now, can my veins be used?"

  The monster thought for a moment and said, "Actually, I don't know if it will work or not."

  Wen Baiyu didn't hesitate and suddenly pulled out a dragon scale dagger from his boot, then swiped it across his own palm.

  Fresh blood gushed out, but the body's temperature emitted a puff of white air in the icy snow.

  Wen Baiyu hastily applied the blood to Gan Zhu's wound. The new leaves that had grown on the wound touched Wen Baiyu's blood, and as if frightened, suddenly curled up and withered. In a short while, the branches and leaves withered and broke off with just a light touch of the knife.

  Shi Xu looked at it and widened his eyes, saying: "It really works, can inhibit the growth of branches and leaves, but the root is still inside."

  Wen Baiyu dripped her own blood onto Gan Zhu's wounds, and soon all the flowers withered away. Although their roots were still inside, Gan Zhu's complexion clearly improved, gradually gaining some color.

  Wen Baiyu was suddenly delighted, and he dripped his own blood onto Xue Bo's wound. Xue Bo's wound was a new one, the needle had just been pulled out, and as soon as the blood touched it, the swelling immediately subsided.

  The child cut a cross-shaped wound on Xue Bai's wound, and there was no root inside, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

  Wen Baiyu looked at the two people, one was completely fine and the other had stopped deteriorating. She couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief and relaxed, suddenly feeling a bit dizzy. They were not adapted to high altitudes, and it was extremely cold here. Wen Baiyu had also lost a lot of blood, and she felt dizzy and weak all of a sudden, as if her head would spin with every slight movement.

  The monster saw his pale face and stretched out his hand to touch his wound. The wound slowly healed.

  The monster said: "Master, rest quickly, you've lost too much blood."

  Wen Baiyu nodded slightly, he was really too tired, so he lay down, the dizzy and nauseous feeling was alleviated after lying down, and soon fell asleep.

  In the second half of the night, Gan Zhu woke up. He suddenly opened his eyes and looked around. The surroundings were tents, with many people crowded together. Gan Zhu didn't recognize many people, but he saw Wen Baiyu and immediately relaxed.

  Gan Zhu woke up with a start and saw the night watchman, who hastily gave him some food and heated water for him. He asked in a low voice, "How did you get separated from General Wan?"

  Gan Zhu shook his head and said, "It's not just me, everyone has scattered."

  As soon as he spoke, the crowd, who were not sleeping soundly anyway, immediately woke up. Gan Zhu was the only person they had met, and everyone was eager to understand the situation, their drowsiness vanished instantly.

  Everyone sat up and gathered around, except for Wen Baiyu, who was still unconscious due to excessive blood loss.

  Gan Zhu said that when they came with a team, everything was calm and they stayed overnight in the temple by the Gobi Desert. On that day, they encountered strong winds and couldn't move forward, but they didn't notice the bronze gate on the wall.

  As soon as night fell, something came to ambush them. Gan Zhuo said that he didn't even know how the thing suddenly appeared out of thin air, it looked like a snake with a human head, and the hair on its head was like countless snakes.

  Everyone listened and thought this was a fish, but how could it have run so far from the lake just now?

  Gan Zhuo said that he was also puzzled at the time, and the destructive power of the monster was very great. The temple itself was still well-preserved, but those broken pillars were all knocked down by it. Later, the monster was injured by Wan Qi Jing Hou, and everyone was scattered.

  Gan Zhu had no equipment, food or water was very limited, the only weapon was a copper ladle, he stayed in the temple, thinking that others might come back here.

  However, he waited for two days and didn't see a single person, feeling uneasy, so he contacted Wen Baiyu.

  Days later, it was still raining and there was no moonlight. On the day when Gan Zhu lost contact with Wen Baiyu, the moon finally came out. Gan Zhu discovered the secret of the mural, which was a bronze door without a lock.

  Maybe it's from here that the mole digs out.

  Gan Zhu was very curious what was inside, and as the darkness faded away, the bronze gate was about to disappear. Gan Zhu felt a bit anxious, so he entered the gate, wanting to see what was inside. If it was too deep, he would retreat and continue waiting for Wen Baiyu.

  Gan Zhu never thought that he would meet a ferocious ghost in the tomb, the ghost's head was too big, it fled all the way forward and unexpectedly stumbled out of the cave.

  Everyone was talking, when Wen Baiyu suddenly let out a moan. Yu Wenyang went over and saw that Wen Baiyu's cheeks were actually slightly flushed, having just been deathly pale from blood loss.

  Yu Wei Yang reached out and touched his forehead, saying: "This is not good, Wen Bai Yu has a fever. He lost so much blood, his body is too weak, what can be done?"

  The beast also touched Wen Baiyu's forehead, shook his head and said: "It's not a fever, but it's not good either. The master's body can't hold on anymore, we have to find the people in front as soon as possible."

  At this moment, Wen Baiyu suddenly opened his eyes and grabbed the hand of the beast, scaring it to tremble.

  "Master, you're awake?" said the beast.

  Wen Baiyu suddenly sat up and said, "It's here."

  Everyone was puzzled and asked: "What's wrong with you?"

  Wen Baiyu's eyes swept around and said, "Didn't you hear? It was the sound of a ghost."

  Everyone immediately became alert, and they opened the tent to look outside. It was pitch black outside, but it seemed like dawn was about to break soon.

  Although they didn't see any signs of the beast, to be on the safe side and since everyone was already awake, Shi Xue had everyone pack up their luggage, dismantle the tent, and prepare to move forward.

  The guide slept for a whole night, and he was the one who slept best. He woke up now because he felt that he had fainted twice, feeling particularly uneasy, so he took the initiative to carry his luggage. In fact, he was afraid that everyone would think he was a burden and leave him behind.

  Everyone picked up their luggage and, as it was too dark, turned on their flashlights and tied them to their forearms, ready to move forward.

  Just at this moment, a sudden "Ka... Ka..." sound was heard, and everyone was tense.

  Shi Xu said in a low voice: "You're really something, Eldest Sister... you can even predict the future now."

  "Cut the crap, we can still hear him from a distance. Let's hurry up, this is his territory and he knows it better than us. We can't let him get the upper hand."

  Everyone hurriedly started walking forward, along the valley all the way in. Wen Baiyu had lost a lot of blood, but after sleeping for a while, her face actually became rosy and radiant. Except for feeling stuffy in the chest, she no longer felt dizzy.

  Everyone quickened their pace and moved forward, when suddenly a loud "crack" sound was heard, as if something had split open.

  Everyone suddenly stopped in their tracks, looking down at their feet, thinking the mountain had cracked open. Just then, the snow on the ground erupted with a "whooshing" sound, like a whale spouting water, as a massive force burst forth from beneath the earth, carrying the snow with it.

  The crowd was immediately dispersed by him, and Wen Baiyu only felt a huge force carrying him away, tumbling backwards and falling far away, landing on his back with a thud in the snowy ground.

  Wen Baiyu's head hit the ground very hard, especially when he fell backwards and bumped his occipital bone. His brain suddenly felt dizzy, his eyes turned black, and his ears were filled with the sound of people shouting "Open fire!" He wanted to get up from the ground, but his body wouldn't listen, swaying left and right.

  "Caw caw caw......"

  A shrill laugh pierced through the air, "Whoosh—" and Wen Baiyu felt a massive gust of wind sweep in, suddenly being pinned down by an enormous force, and was sent flying into the sky.

  Yu Wei Yang shouted "Wen Bai Yu", the black shadow in front of Wen Bai Yu slowly retreated, only then did he feel that he was actually being held by a giant python with his waist pinched and mouth gagged. The python didn't rush to eat him, instead it suddenly sprang up from the ground, jumping extremely high, causing Wen Bai Yu's brain to buzz loudly "HUM" and his two ears to ring.

  They won't fly, they just rush high and fall from the sky again, rushing straight down to peck at others.

  "Fire!" Shi Xu yelled loudly.

  Tan Chu said: "Wen Baiyu is still on top!"

  Shi Xu raised his gun and aimed, saying: "I have a measure."

  He said, "Bang bang" fired two shots, this time the pheasant learned its lesson, immediately dodged and hid, then surprisingly stuffed Wen Baiyu into the gun barrel, scolding "Damn it", didn't dare to fire again, didn't expect this pheasant to be so cunning.

  Wen Baiyu was holding onto the dragon scale dagger, and just as he was about to stab the beast, it suddenly dived downwards. Wen Baiyu's head spun and his eyes blurred, and in his momentary daze, his hand lost its grip on the dagger, which fell with a "whoosh" sound.

  Then it let out a loud "Boom" and landed in the snowy ground, everyone looked up at the top, saw something falling down, hurriedly rushed to hide, you know that even if it's just a small stone falling from such a height, it can still smash someone half to death, not to mention the shiny dragon scales!

  Wen Baiyu cursed loudly, he was bitten by the hornet, his body in severe pain, and hurriedly went to touch the Fenggu bone/first, and the hornet jumped up and down, making Wen Baiyu's stomach churn, almost vomiting.

  Wen Baiyu finally managed to touch the dagger, he moved very slowly, fearing that Yu Xiang would discover him, and suddenly exerted his strength to kill himself.

  Wen Baiyu tightly grasped the dagger, and suddenly raised her hand to stab. With a "pu" sound, the dagger had already pierced into the eyes of the cave master.

  It eats pain, wildly shaking its head, pulling it out from the ground and rushing straight up to the sky, then suddenly releasing its mouth.

  Wen Baiyu let out a loud shout, this is the end, at such a high altitude, if he fell down, he would become minced meat, or rather, mushy minced meat. Now he only hoped that he wouldn't crush anyone else.

  Wen Baiyu's body was in mid-air, then suddenly dropped rapidly. Wen Baiyu had given up all hope, when a loud bird cry sounded beside his ear. His body was suddenly pulled by an unseen force, the momentum of his fall weakened, and he was enveloped by a warm, gentle breath.

  Another loud and shrill bird cry.

  Wen Baiyu opened his eyes to find a large bird with golden light radiating from its entire body perched on top of his head. The bird had six tails, and as it swished them, they emitted a fiery glow.

  It's a golden phoenix!

  The phoenix's claws grasped Warm White Feather, slowly falling down, and gently put her down not far from the ground.

  Everyone saw Wen Baiyu fall from the sky and was anxious. Tianyi wanted to transform into his original form to catch him, but transforming into his original form only made him bigger and wouldn't allow him to fly.

  At this moment, they saw the golden phoenix!

  The wolf was blinded in one eye, fell to the snowy ground, and incredibly struggled out of the snow, this wolf was indeed tenacious. At first, it was injured by Wan Qi Jing Hou, then hit seven inches by Shi Xu, just now its eyes were stabbed by Wen Bai Yu, yet it charged again.

  A flock of birds flew up, just as Shi Xiang was about to fire his gun. Suddenly, several loud bird calls were heard, and the crowd's necks tightened as a few giant phoenixes swooped down from the sky, grabbing onto their clothes and lifting them all into the air in an instant.

  Penguins can't fly, even if they jump up high, they still can't reach. In their anxiety, they loudly shout "Ga Ga" in the snowy ground.

  The white feathers were pulled up into the sky, the snow-capped mountains roared with anger, and the white snow rolled down from the high mountains on both sides like a wave, and it actually avalanched.

  Luckily they flew high, otherwise they would have been buried by the heavy snow.

  Wen Baiyu let out a sigh of relief, the massive snow-capped mountains beneath their feet, the azure sky seemed within reach, this magnificent feeling was truly too wonderful.

  The golden phoenix around/ body emits a warm breath, making the Wen Bai Yu let out a sigh. He raised his head and found that the golden phoenix also lowered its head, with black eyes looking at Wen Bai Yu, and tilted its head, as if communicating with Wen Bai Yu.

  They flew very far, during which the guide was scared to death and shouted loudly in mid-air.

  The little cart suddenly said: "Look ahead quickly, it's a tree!"

  Wen Baiyu heard the rustling of trees, and suddenly felt a surge of excitement. At this moment, the golden phoenix also descended slowly in groups, gently landing beside the big tree, putting them all down.

  Then came the sound of birds chirping, and golden phoenixes flew up to the big tree, standing on branches one by one, flapping their wings. With a loud "whoosh", flames suddenly burst forth from the top of the tree, and the phoenixes sang in unison.

  Wen Baiyu was startled and exclaimed: "Undying Tree?"

  As he spoke, Wen Baiyu saw the big fire on the tree slowly extinguished, and the phoenixes escaped from the flames, becoming more dazzling, with golden bodies wrapped in flame-like light.

  Three phoenixes flew down from the tree, each with a round red fruit in their mouths.

  They flew to Wen Baiyu's side, surrounding him, then the golden wings spread out, suddenly bowed their heads, placed the fruit in Wen Baiyu's hands, and instead of raising their heads, they lowered them even further, as if worshiping, with their wings spread wide, the golden head bowed to the ground, making a low bird call.

  Suddenly all the golden phoenixes on the tree spread their wings, chirped and bowed their heads.

  The sun rose, and the trees were dyed golden by the phoenix's feathers. In that instant, the loud bird calls, the birds lowering their heads in unison, set off against the suddenly leaping sunlight, creating a majestic and desolate scene that was hard to put into words.

  Wen Baiyu was slightly stunned, looking at the round red pill in her palm, which wasn't big, but looked very delicate, like a coral.

  "Is it the fruit that grows on the Undying Tree?"

  He said, the leading Golden Phoenix raised its head, nodded at Wen Baiyu's hand, and Wen Baiyu didn't understand what he meant. The Golden Phoenix then pecked at his sleeve and pulled his hand to Gan Zhu's side.

  Wen Baiyu excitedly said: "You say this fruit can cure Gan Zhu?"

  Jin Feng Huang seemed to understand Wen Bai Yu's words, then nodded, and tilted his head to look at him, blinking his round black eyes.

  Wen Baiyu was overjoyed in her heart and quickly handed a red fruit to Gan Zhu, saying: "Eat it quickly."

  As soon as the sweet dumpling was picked up and put into the mouth, a sweet flavor surged up. After eating it, from the throat to the stomach, there was a warm feeling that drove away the chill immediately.

  The golden phoenix raised its head and let out a cry, seemingly very happy. It flapped its wings twice, and the blue marks on Gan Zhu's arm slowly faded away. He pressed his hand against his arm, and there was no swelling or pain inside either. This fruit was incredibly potent.

  "Must be the elixir of immortality used by Tian Di to revive himself."

  Wen Baiyu's face was filled with a smile as she said, "There are still two left, that's great. One for Tangzi and one for Zhong Jian."

  He said, and handed one of them to Yu Wei Yang. Yu Wei Yang was somewhat excited, his palm holding the antidote trembling, he didn't think that this would be the way to find a way to save Tang Zi, unfortunately Tang Zi is not here now.

  Yu Wei Yang put it in a small box and carried it with him, treasuring it dearly.

  Ji Zhongjian gave a lifesaving pill to Wen Baiyu and kept it for herself.

  Wen Baiyu looked at the big tree and said: "There is a tree here. Is the tree that Wan Qi Jinghou mentioned this one?"

  Everyone took out their compasses and looked at them for a long time, but all around was white and foggy, the mountain peaks looked almost the same, and it was really hard to tell them apart.

  Many people surrounded the tree and searched for several laps, but didn't see anything similar to a mechanism or a tomb, as if there was no burial here.

  Wen Baiyu asked the guide again.

  The guide was staring blankly at the golden phoenixes on the Undying Tree, seemingly drooling, when he was called by Wen Baiyu and suddenly came back to his senses, stuttering: "This direction seems not quite right, aren't you bosses going north, this is west."

  He said, Wen Baiyu suddenly felt a bit discouraged, didn't expect to have gone in the wrong direction.

  The guide rolled his eyes and said, "Although we're heading in the wrong direction now, going down from this side is easier than climbing up from that side. This tree seems to be emitting warmth, and since everyone didn't sleep well last night, let's take a break here, rest for a while, and then continue on our way. The deeper we go, the worse the weather will get - it might start snowing or raining at any moment, and who knows if we'll even have a place to rest? Gentlemen, it's better to recharge before moving forward!"

  Everyone was a bit tired from the fight with the zombies just now, and they really wanted to rest, so they sat down around the Undead Tree. The trunk of the tree was warm, like a natural stove, and leaning against it could keep them warm.

  Wen Baiyu leaned against the Undying Tree, with Jin Feng Huang crouched beside him. The huge wings spread out and covered him like a blanket, blocking the wind and keeping him warm.

  Wen Baiyu couldn't help but reach out and touch the golden feathers, feeling extremely good. The Golden Phoenix raised its head and affectionately rubbed against Wen Baiyu.

  It was so warm that Wen Baiyu herself bled a lot and her physical strength was weak, and she fell asleep soon.

  Wen Baiyu was sleeping drowsily, when he suddenly saw the guide with a sly and cunning look in his eyes crawling up from the ground, then picking up their guns and quickly firing at the phoenix in the tree several times.

  The golden phoenix on the tree let out a piercing cry, blood splattered everywhere, all of it splattering onto Wen Baiyu's face.

  Wen Baiyu was frightened and stunned, the golden bird fell from the tree and landed in her arms, looking at herself with a faint breath.

  This change was too sudden, Wen Baiyu didn't even have time to react, the guide had already burst out laughing and went to pick up the phoenix on the ground. At this moment, a loud "Boom" sound shook the air, a huge crack split open in the snowy ground, and a giant python emerged from beneath, its jaws wide open, biting down on the guide's head. A sickening crunching sound followed, as the guide's head was bitten off, leaving only his neck intact. Fresh blood gushed out instantly, splashing onto the snow-covered ground. The guide let out a dull thud and fell to the ground, still clutching his gun in his hand.

  "Ah..."

  Wen Baiyu shouted hoarsely and suddenly woke up from his dream, only to find it was just a dream. He was panting heavily, while the Golden Phoenix beside him looked at him with its round black eyes, not knowing what Wen Baiyu had dreamed of.

  Wen Baiyu adjusted his breathing, the people beside him were still asleep, at this moment, he saw a black shadow crawling up from the ground, going to touch their backpacks, seemingly searching for something, and took out a hunting rifle.

  The guide lived nearby and naturally used a hunting rifle. He took out the rifle, and Wen Baiyu's heart "thudded" in response. Immediately, he let out a loud shout, saying: "What are you doing?!"

  He shouted this, and the guide was immediately frightened, almost throwing away his gun. The people around him were startled awake, watching the guide with vigilance.

  The guide gripped the gun in his hand, spat and said: "Not doing anything, just heard that the meat of the phoenix can live forever, want to get some to taste, besides, the fruit of the undying tree was all taken away by you, not leaving any for me. Although I'm a guide, I also found the way for you, no merit but hard work, what do you say, bosses? The little money you gave is not enough, why don't we work together to kill the phoenix and sell it for a good price when we get out of the mountain? We can split the money by headcount, I absolutely won't take more. How about it, bosses?"

  Wen Bai's heart was pounding like a drum, he thought it was just a dream, but when he opened his eyes, it became reality. He absolutely couldn't let the tour guide open fire.

  At this time, the golden phoenixes had already flown up from the undying tree, raised their heads and rushed into the air. The guide was somewhat anxious, if they flew any higher, the hunting guns would not be able to hit them.

  He shouldered the rifle and prepared to aim, Ziche's movements were very quick, "Bang" fired a shot, the bullet grazed the guide's wrist and passed by, the guide immediately let out a loud scream like killing a pig, rolled in the snow, yelling in pain, and threw the gun aside.

  The guide covered his hand, somewhat unwilling, wanting to get up and pick up the gun on the ground.

  Wen Baiyu rolled over, hugged the hunting rifle, and ran aside.

  The guide's expression was extremely unwilling, having already torn his face, but failed to catch the phoenix, and for a moment he was flustered.

  Just at this moment, Wen Baiyu felt the snowy ground slightly shaking, and he immediately thought of his dream just now. He quickly turned around, fell down, moved away from the guide, and shouted loudly: "Quickly get down!"

  The crowd also felt the vibration of the snowy ground, and immediately everyone fell down. The guide had just stood up from the ground, was shaken unsteadily, and then heard a loud "rumble" sound. A black shadow suddenly emerged from the snowy ground with a "crack" sound, and had already bitten off the guide's head.

  Blood spurted out, and everyone was shocked.

  At this time, the birds chirped one after another. The phoenixes that had already flown into the sky suddenly dived down. The body of the phoenix was much smaller than the Yuanyu, and Wen Baiyu was a little worried. However, these golden phoenixes did not approach the Yuanyu after diving down, but instead suddenly opened their beaks.

  "A whoosh" sound, and a huge flame suddenly spewed out of the bird's beak.

  His snake-like hair immediately caught fire, his mouth let out a loud "Ga Ga Ga" cry, the pain made him roll around on the ground.

  The little creature dived headfirst into the snow cave, as if trying to escape from where it came.

  The "ga ga ga" sound disappeared along with the blood cave, and everyone let out a sigh of relief.

  Shi Xu looked at the guide's corpse on the ground and said, "It's also his own fault, but now we're in a bit of a pickle."

  "Let's roll up his corpse, it's eerie without a head. Who knows if he'll come back to life again in the freezing cold."

  Thinking about it, he took out a blanket from his backpack and was about to walk over when Wen Baiyu suddenly stopped him.

  Shi Xu exclaimed in surprise: "So fast? This corpse is too quick, it's only been five minutes since he died."

  Wen Baiyu shook his head, pointing to the snow cave beside the corpse and said: "Zuo Zuo is very cunning, who knows if he will come out from inside again after a while. Let's wait for a while before talking."

  Shi Xu also thought it made sense, just as he was about to nod his head, he heard the sound of "Rumble... Rumble...", the snow cave began to shake continuously, and a black shadow emerged from the snow cave again.

  It's raining.

  "Damn it, he's back again?!"

  He said, and immediately the muzzle was aimed at the hole for a crazy sweep. The hole itself was already heavily injured, just trying to catch off guard, but unexpectedly the other party did not fall into the trap. The hole suddenly popped out, didn't get any advantage, and was swept away by a barrage of bullets. It had to make another "rumble" sound and crawl back in from the hole. This time the sound was very loud, with a string of "rumbling" sounds, as if it had crawled far away.

  Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The phoenixes circled twice in the sky before descending and landing on the immortal tree, letting out a loud, shrill cry.

  "This time it's really gone, right?"

  He said, shaking the blanket in his hand. Just a moment ago, he was so frightened that he forgot what he was doing. Suddenly, he remembered to wrap up the headless guide to prevent it from scaring the flowers and grasses or turning into a zombie.

  Shi Xun held up the blanket and scanned around, saying: "Hey, are my eyes playing tricks on me? Where's that guide?"

  As soon as he spoke, everyone's back was shocked, and they saw that not far from them, there was only a large piece of bright red bloodstain left, where was the person!

  Wen Baiyu was startled and the tour guide's head was buried in the snow, already headless. His body lay on the snowy ground, could he still run away by himself?

  Everyone made sure that the beast wouldn't come back again, then they walked over to take a look. Wen Baiyu said: "Could it be that when the beast came back earlier, it dragged him into the cave?"

  The little car shook its head and said, "Impossible."

  As they spoke, they saw a row of dragging bloodstains on the snowy ground, and on the white snowy ground, there were also two handprints, as if someone had crawled forward in an alternating motion.

  Everyone's back shivered, Wen Baiyu said: "The corpse crawled away?"

  "How is this possible? It's already turned into a corpse so quickly?"

  Everyone was puzzled about what was going on, but looking at the direction of this blood/print, it was actually heading north, which was the direction they were going.

  Everyone rested for a while, feeling that they couldn't delay any longer. Gan Zhu's body recovered immediately after taking the life-saving medicine, and not even a wound could be found; his strength also returned. So everyone decided to head north to meet up with General Wan Zhen.

  The golden phoenix did not leave the undying tree, it just flew onto a branch and watched them go far away.

  Wen Baiyu turned around, looking at the now golden Undying Tree, and waved her hand. From afar came a loud bird call, and the phoenix bowed its head as if to see Wen Baiyu off.

  Wen Baihe and them had been entangled with the cunning and vengeful Yu Niang for a long time, but it was unknown whether she would catch up again.

  They could still see the blood/stains at first, but later they couldn't see them anymore. Snow began to fall from the sky and the surroundings also became dark, as if a big snowstorm was coming at any moment. Perhaps the blood/stains had already been buried by the falling snow.

  They walked very uncomfortably, no one knew the way, Gan Zhu didn't know where Xiang Wang's tomb was, and actually Wan Qi Jing Hou didn't know either.

  Gan Zhu said: "Wan Qi Jing Hou has been talking for too long and he can't even remember where it is, so he can only walk and look around."

  Wen Baiyu showed Gan Zhu the fur left by Wan Kui Jinghou and asked: "Do you know what this means?"

  Gan Zhu nodded and said: "This is the clue that Wan Qi Jing Hou said, he said that the tomb of King Xiang has no signs on the ground, nor a tombstone. Walking north, after passing through the bronze gate, you can see a giant rice plant. The tomb of King Xiang should be nearby."

  Keep walking north, but don't know where to go, and don't know when you can see the legendary Kunlun Jiudong Gate and the giant rice grains.

  Wen Baihe and they were exhausted from walking, occasionally looking at the dry rations, they didn't eat much, being frugal from the start, after all, everyone had made the worst assumptions, now there was still a lot of food left, but they didn't recognize the road, nor did they know when to arrive.

  The sky turned dark, the vast white snow turned pitch black, and a strong wind started to blow. The "whirring" sound of the wind mixed with large snowflakes, hitting my face like being slapped twice.

  It's dark and can't see clearly, can't go forward anymore. It's snowing heavily, everyone chose a place to avoid the wind, set up tents, sat down to rest.

  Yu Wei Yang took out the small box from his bosom, inside which was placed that red, glowing elixir of immortality. Yu Wei Yang looked at the elixir of immortality and couldn't help but sigh repeatedly.

  Wen Baiyu sat beside him and patted Yu Yang's shoulder, saying: "Don't worry, Tangzi is so powerful, he'll definitely be fine."

  Yu Wei Yang smiled slightly, nodded, but looked pale, possibly due to the cold. It was too chilly here, and the fire was blown out as soon as it was lit. The wind was too strong, making it impossible to start a bonfire. Everyone had no choice but to huddle together for warmth.

  Yu Wei Yang was the most miserable, his body feared cold, and he had no fire to warm himself up. He quickly froze and started shivering violently. Tonight was the coldest night, Yu Wei Yang was somewhat delirious, curled up, and shivered desperately.

  Wen Baiyu covered Ruyu Yang's body with all the clothes they had brought, but there was no improvement. Wen Baiyu was worried to death, fearing that before finding others, Master Yu's body would not be able to hold on.

  He was sighing when he suddenly saw a shadow outside the tent, something was sticking to the tent...

  Wen Baiyu was startled and reached out to touch Zi Che, who immediately lifted his head and placed his hand on the gun at his waist.

  Others were also woken up by them, and they quietly sat up. The tent was lit inside, but outside it was pitch black, and all that could be seen was a dark shadow tightly attached to their tent.

  That shadow really can't see what it is, the shadow sticks close to the tent, and instantly prints a watermark on the tent, with a pungent iron smell, Wen Baiyu sniffed his nose, it's the smell of blood!

  As soon as Wen Baiyu's heart skipped a beat, he immediately thought of the guide without a head. The description of that black shadow was very strange - it was thinner on top and wider at the bottom. Looking at it this way, it really did resemble a person without a head. And the water stain wasn't anything else, but rather blood that had been imprinted.

  It seemed that everyone else had also realized this, and as Zi Che was about to draw his gun, Xue Bai shook his head. Everyone felt it wasn't a good idea - with such deep snow, even a loud shout could trigger an avalanche, let alone gunfire.

  Xue Bai nodded slightly towards Wen Baiyu, and Wen Baiyu immediately handed over the Longlin knife to Xue Bai.

  Xue Bai got closer, he silently pulled out his dagger, the blood stain was right next to him, tightly stuck to the tent, even pressing the tent inward.

  Xue Bai moved swiftly, "hiss" and stabbed in, immediately followed by a quick pull.

  "Plop" - a sound of blood splashing out, the tent was covered all over with it, and that thing fell to the ground outside the tent with a "thud".

  Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Xue Bai's stab was very accurate, it was stabbed at the position of the heart.

  Time to open the tent, from inside walked out, everyone also walked out, just saw outside lying a black shadow, a strong bloody smell came over.

  "This time, even if it's turned into a rice ball, it's definitely dead..."

  He said, stretching out his hand to grab the black shadow on the ground. The black shadow didn't move at all, and he was quite bold, but as soon as he grabbed it, his face immediately changed color, his hand shook, and there was only a bulging pile of clothes on the ground.

  "Bad, we've been tricked!"

  Wen Baiyu's heart skipped a beat as soon as he heard this, and he turned around to run into the tent. They all went out to look at the black shadow, leaving only Yu Yang alone inside. Yu Yang had been in a semi-comatose state all along, and now there was no one left in the tent, except for a puddle of foul-smelling blood.

  Wen Baiyu slammed his fist on the ground and said, "No one's left!"

  "Quickly pursue, they won't run far."

  Everyone took out their weapons from their backpacks and looked around, only to see something moving constantly on the ground not far away.

  Wen Bai Yu narrowed his eyes to take a look, but the wind and snow were too great, and he really couldn't see clearly. He made a gesture, beckoning everyone to come over.

  Everyone quietly gathered around, and as they got closer, they saw a snow pit on the ground. Yu Wei Yang was lying in it with his eyes closed, his face as pale as gold paper, his lips purple, next to him was a headless corpse digging at the snow on the ground, as if trying to dig a hole, its movements extremely eerie.

  But that's not all, Wen Baiyu found the guide's body to be somewhat unusual. In addition to emitting a foul odor of blood and gore, his hands and neck had been severed, revealing a faint blue ice crystal at the cut. Due to the heavy snowstorm, Wen Baiyu couldn't see clearly and could only vaguely make out the faint blue color.

  This ice crystal looks exactly like the incense box they saw in the tomb!

  At that time, it was said that this was not jade, but a kind of bone. Now, the tour guide's bone has also undergone such a change. Is it because he touched the box?

  Wen Baiyu grabbed the side of the child's cart, pointed, and the child also found that strange thing similar to ice crystal, still light blue in color, in the dim wind and snow, it seemed to be flashing.

  They slowly closed in, Wen Baiyu gripped the dagger tightly in his hand, while Shi Xu held a gun. The strange guide was closest to Yu Yang, at this time if he used a dagger or other weapons, it's estimated that he couldn't stop him, and they would have to see who was faster, shooting was the best option, but he was also afraid of causing a snowball effect, it was really difficult to decide.

  The strange guide was digging snow on the ground, as if digging a grave, intending to put Yu Wenyang in it. His fingertips had exposed many bones due to digging snow, and the ice crystals on his bones were getting bigger and darker, visible to the naked eye.

  Yu Wei Yang's body also began to form a layer of ice crystals on it, as if he was going to be frozen in place.

  Wen Baiyu shouted out in a low voice, "It's no good, we can't delay any longer."

  Just as everyone was about to take action, the guide suddenly stopped digging snow, his headless neck kept turning, with blue ice crystals on top constantly rotating, as if looking around in all directions.

  Wen Baiyu felt a chill run down her neck as they were discovered by their guide.

  The child had already made the first move, and with a swift kick, he knocked the guide to the ground. The guide rolled around on the ground, watching as his prey was about to get away, and immediately scrambled to his feet, his icy hands resembling claws as he pounced towards the child.

  The child's legs were clamped together, just right to clamp the tour guide's arm, and then a twist in mid-air, followed by a "crack" sound. Everyone instinctively covered their own arms, feeling a sharp pain.

  The tour guide's arm was suddenly twisted off by the car, and it seemed particularly brittle. With a "crack" sound, it directly fell off from his shoulder and dropped to the ground.

  Shi Xu covered his own shoulders again, then patted Xue Bai's shoulder with infinite emotion and said: "This son of yours looks quite fierce, I don't know if you can handle it..."

  Xue Bai didn't say a word and saw the tour guide lose an arm, immediately fell to the ground, motionless. Xue Bai beckoned and said: "Zi Che".

  The child immediately turned around and ran over quickly. Xue Bai said, "Are you okay? Didn't get hurt?"

  Zi Che shook his head. Xue Bai checked him out and then kissed his forehead, Zi Che actually felt a bit embarrassed, after all, he had thin skin.

  At the sight of this, Shixu couldn't help but feel envious. Zi Che's attitude towards outsiders was always cold and distant, but when facing his adoptive father, he became extremely obedient. Shixu thought to himself, "Which one is like our own?" If Piao Yu were ever so obedient, Shixu felt that the end of the world must be near.

  Wen Baiyu quickly went over and lifted Yu Wenyang out of the snow pit. Yu Wenyang's breathing was extremely weak, his whole body was icy cold, and he was somewhat stiff.

  Wen Baiyu immediately picked him up and said: "Quickly, find a place to make a fire, or Ruyu will freeze to death like this."

  Everyone is hastily dismantling their tents. This place may catch fire, so they quickly wrapped up their luggage and prepared to move forward in a manner similar to fleeing a disaster.

  Just then, a "da-da, da-da-da" sound rang out.

  Wen Baiyu turned his head and saw that the guide had already sat up from the ground, and was still pretending to be dead! Moreover, his broken arm was jumping and squirming on the ground, as if looking for its own body.

  Wen Baiyu suddenly took a cold breath, this was also too eerie. He saw the pale blue ice crystal fingers tapping on the ground, the five fingertips rising and falling like playing the piano, then suddenly grasping at the ground with all five fingers, shaking and leaping forward towards his own body.

  Everyone had never seen such a thing, the guide at this time had already crawled up from the ground, he was missing an arm, his movements seemed uncoordinated, walking left and right swaying, the arm on the ground suddenly jumped up, the guide stretched out his hand to scoop it up, holding his own arm in his hand, his shoulder where the break was, the bone exposed, had also turned into pale blue ice crystal.

  Shi Xu said: "This old fellow is strangely formidable, what can we do now?"

  Wen Baiyu didn't know what to do either and said: "His arm is very brittle, like ice. You guys say, isn't he afraid of fire?"

  Shi Mou said: "I think it's a good idea to burn the bastard to death, but I want to ask, leader, in such a big snowstorm, how the hell do you start a fire?!"

  Wen Baiyu was suddenly at a loss for words. If they could start a fire, why would they be running around like headless flies looking for a place?

  The guide walked towards them and suddenly stretched out his hand, as if he had made his severed arm into a weapon, and threw it at Wen Baiyu.

  Wen Baiyu pounced forward, but because of the weight on his back, Yu Yang, his movements weren't too agile. The two of them fell to the snowy ground in an instant. The guide had already rushed over, Wen Baiyu gritted his teeth and bumped into Yu Yang, who immediately lost balance and rolled down the snowy slope.

  The guide didn't catch Rain Wei Yang, and immediately turned to grab Wen Bai Yu. Wen Bai Yu watched as Rain Wei Yang rolled down, her heart in her throat, not knowing how deep it was below. Rain Wei Yang remained unconscious, this is terrible.

  He just paused for a moment, and the guide rushed over, knocking Wen Baiyu to the ground. An icy palm grasped his neck, crystal-like bones sank into his flesh, and Wen Baiyu heard a "hiss" sound, as if his own neck had been frozen stiff.

  The crowd shouted in unison and wanted to rush down to find Yu Wei Yang, but then they saw the guide grab Wen Baiyu's neck and immediately came over to help.

  Wen Baiyu's foot kicked the guide's chest, and a crisp "crack" sound was heard. The guide was kicked by him and flew out, but the arm that grabbed Wen Baiyu still tightly grasped his neck, continuously applying force.

  Wen Baiyu's eyes turned white as he pinched the wrist of that hand, and with a "hiss" sound, the icy crystal wrist suddenly emitted thick smoke, as if Wen Baiyu's palm temperature was very high, instantly melting it, and it fell to the ground with a "thud".

  Everyone held down the guide's headless and armless body to prevent him from rushing up again. The glutton was shining his flashlight downwards on the snowy slope, saying: "I'll go take a look, it's not too steep, should be fine."

  He said, the tour guide's body suddenly exerted a strange force, and with one swing, he flung Shi Xu away. Shi Xu didn't know what was happening, and before he knew it, he was thrown into the snowy ground, dazed from the impact.

  Just at that moment, a sudden bird cry was heard, and a black shadow suddenly darted out from the snowy slope. Everyone was stunned, and then they saw a huge black bird with five peacock tails, flapping its wings in mid-air, and suddenly spewing flames from its mouth. The massive flames shot towards the guide in the strong wind.

  The ice crystal bone twisted and struggled in the flames, then fell to the ground with a "bang", twitching constantly, finally turning into a pile of rice-like powder that disappeared instantly when blown by the wind.

  Everyone quickly covered their mouths and noses, afraid of inhaling this rice powder.

  At this moment, a large black bird emitted a burst of light and suddenly transformed into human form, holding someone in its arms - it was Yu Ruoyang who had fallen down the snowy slope.

  Wen Baiyu looked at them in surprise and said: "Tangzi?!"

  Tang Zi transformed into a human form, but his arms had some charred black marks, and his skin seemed to have been burned by fire. His body could no longer maintain its original state, let alone spit out fire, which was tantamount to self-immolation.

  Yu Wei Yang lay in his arms, seemingly feeling that scorching warmth, and actually opened her eyes.

  Yu Wei Yang opened his eyes and saw Tang Zi's anxious face. He thought he was dreaming and shook his head.

  Tang Zi held him tightly and said: "Boss Yu, aren't you cold? Your hands are so cool."

  Yu Wei Yang finally woke up, and immediately used his trembling hands to take out the small box from his bosom. His hands and feet were icy cold, and his throat was frozen so that he couldn't speak. His fingers were stiff with cold, but he managed to open the box with a "click", and the red elixir of life rolled out onto the snowy ground.

  Yu Wei Yang struggled to sit up and was about to go pick it up, but Tang Zi looked at him with a heartache, stretched out his hand from the snowy ground, picked up the Bu Si Yao, and placed it on Yu Wei Yang's lips.

  Yu Wei Yang shook his head desperately, turned his head aside and said with difficulty: "For you... eat quickly..."

  Wen Baiyu walked over and said, "This is the fruit that grows on the Undying Tree, its effects are very potent. Yu Wan'yang left it for you for half a day, hurry up and eat it. Yu Wan'yang is currently only frozen in place, once your body recovers, you can take care of him."

  Yu Wei Yang spoke with some difficulty, nodded his head, indicating that Wen Bai Yu was right.

  Tang Zi smiled and put the red fruit into his mouth, saying: "Thank you."

  Wen Baiyu let out a breath of relief, and then saw that the charred color on Tang Zi's arm was slowly fading away, revealing the skin color underneath. The effect looked incredibly miraculous.

  Yu Wei Yang also became excited, as if he had regained some spirit, staring tightly at Tang Zi and saying with difficulty: "You... are you okay?"

  Tang Zǐ nodded and smiled: "The fruit of the undying tree, which takes two thousand years to ripen. You're willing to give me something so precious to eat, how can I not be well?"

  As he spoke, his palm suddenly lit up with a "whoosh" sound, igniting a flame that danced in the strong wind without being extinguished.

  Everyone quickly found some flammable things, Tang Zi lit the fire up, and everyone gathered around, feeling that Tang Zi was really useful, it was a timely help for them.

  Tang Tze hugged Yu Wei Yang by the fire to warm up, but Yu Wei Yang was not just cold in his hands and feet, he was extremely chilly from the inside out. After waking up for a while, his face was still waxen yellow, and he fell asleep again.

  Tang Zi's face didn't look very good, and he carried Yu Wang Yang into the tent.

  Everyone waited for a while and didn't see Tangzi come out. They still wanted to ask Tangzi how he found this place, but after waiting for a long time, the children were getting sleepy and wanted to go into the tent to sleep.

  Wen Baiyu grasped Zi Che's arm at this time and stammered: "That... uh... you'd better wait a bit before going in."

  The little car didn't understand what it meant, Wen Baiyu's face turned slightly red and said: "Yu Wei Yang is a cold constitution, so that thing... is especially afraid of the cold. You guys saw it earlier too, he wasn't waking up all along..."

  He said, while the child car was still looking at him with a puzzled expression. Wen Baiyu gritted her teeth and thought to herself, "What's there to be shy about?" She said, "Tangzi is probably keeping Yuwang warm right now... Let's wait for Tangzi to come out before we go in, or else we might see something we shouldn't..."

  The child suddenly understood and couldn't help but blush, coughed once, and sat back in his original position.

  Xue Bai smiled and let Zi Che lean on his shoulder, putting a thick coat on him, saying: "If you're sleepy, lean against me first, I'll carry you into the tent later."

  The child nodded and closed his eyes.

  Everyone sat around the bonfire, and soon they heard a faint moaning sound coming from inside the tent. Yu Ruoyan was in a semi-conscious state, unaware of what was happening, and didn't know how to endure it, which made things difficult for those outside the tent, especially the thin-skinned ones.

  Zi Che's face was the thinnest, and he leaned against Xue Bai's body, suddenly feeling uncomfortable all over. Xue Bai held his hand, his fingers gently stroking the palm of his hand, causing Zi Che to tremble repeatedly.

  Wen Baiyu listened to the discordant sound by her ear, almost murmuring to herself. After a long time, Tangzi finally came out of the tent with a smile on his face.

  Wen Baiyu coughed and then everyone asked about Tang Zi's situation.

  Originally, Tangzi was also scattered and had no way to contact Wan Kuang Jinghou. However, Tangzi knew that even if Wan Kuang Jinghou didn't have anyone by his side, there would probably be someone going down to the grave, so Tangzi decided to try his luck and walk further in.

  Unexpectedly, I didn't find Wan Kuang Jing Hou, but instead ran into Wen Bai Yu and them here.

  But now it's fine, Tangzi ate the antidote and won't die even if he's a grave bird, and his prototype is very large and can fly. They finally found a substitute for their ride.

  Everyone rested for a night, and at dawn the next day, Tangzi had everyone wait in place first, and he himself transformed into a tomb bird and flew forward towards the sky.

  Yu Wei Yang woke up from his dream, feeling pain all over his body. He was startled and looked around to find himself in a tent with no sign of Tang Zi anywhere.

  Yu Wei Yang struggled to get up, he lifted the tent flap, his eyes scanned around, still couldn't find Tang Zi, thought it was just a dream, and sat down dejectedly.

  Wen Baiyu patted his shoulder and said, "Yu Boss, what's wrong with you so early in the morning? Your man has gone ahead to scout the road and will be back soon. Can't bear to part with him for just a moment?"

  Yu Wei Yang listened to him joking about himself, his face turned red, but fortunately he wasn't dreaming, and Tang Zi had taken the antidote and was fine, Yu Wei Yang immediately let out a sigh of relief.

  After about two hours, everyone saw a shadow flying over, bringing up a strong gust of wind, "Whoosh!" and extinguished their bonfire...

  Tang Zilu fell to the ground and said: "I found the tree that Wan Kuozhen Hou said, there are signs of collapse on the snow beside the tree, I don't know if it's a thief hole."

  As soon as he said this, everyone's spirits were lifted, and Wen Baiyu said: "What are we waiting for? Let's go quickly!"

  Tangzi lowered his head, letting everyone sit on his back, then spread his wings and suddenly soared into the sky.

  Wen Baiyu suddenly felt a buzzing in his ears, this speed was too fast.

  The birds flew very fast, they kept going north, and soon saw a tall tree that reached into the clouds.

  Wen Baiyu couldn't help but open his mouth wide, but all that came in was air, and he couldn't say a word.

  They soon landed on the ground, and Wen Baiyu circled around the giant tree, saying: "There is a tree, but where is the ninefold gate that Gan Zhu spoke of?"

  Gan Zhu shook his head, also couldn't understand.

  Tangzi transformed into a human shape, pointed to a shallow pit beside him and said: "This should be the collapsed snow, I estimate that there is a thief cave below."

  He said, stretching out his hand to touch the snow on the ground.

  Everyone discussed it and since General Wan said to gather at this place, they started digging out the snow that had sunk in.

  After shoveling for half an hour, everyone was sweating on their foreheads, and indeed they saw a pit exposed in the snow.

  The pit looks like it's been there for some years, and it seems to be a real tomb, but inside has collapsed a lot of snow, and we need to continue digging.

  Wen Baiyu saw that there was a chance and immediately exerted himself to start digging.

  They dug a bit bigger, and the thieves' cave was completely exposed before everyone's eyes.

  Xue Bai suddenly froze for a moment, he waved his hand and walked over himself, squatting down to touch the wall of the cave with his hands, his eyes flickering slightly.

  "What's wrong?" said Wen Baiyu.

  Xue Bai muttered: "This is wrong...... These excavation marks are reversed, this thief cave was dug from the inside."

  Wen Baiyu had seen a tunnel dug from the inside once before, and it was Xue Bo's masterpiece. Now that he heard this, his back suddenly felt cold. Could it be that something had crawled out of this tomb as well?

  The snow kept getting deeper, and the crowd walked in while digging out the snow. The tunnel was very long, and the snow in front got thinner and thinner until it disappeared. A stone wall appeared immediately after that, with an opening on it that could be crawled through.

  Wen Baiyu eagerly rushed in, took a jump down, and immediately entered a tomb chamber. The hole was actually dug into the wall of the tomb chamber.

  The tomb should have been just a side room, but it was very strange. The tomb was extremely grand, taller than any underground palace he had ever seen. The dome on top was carved with the sun, moon, stars and rivers, while the ground was carved with mountains, rivers and streams. The walls on all four sides were carved with numerous murals, all of which were related to the phoenix.

  Such a delicate tomb, yet there is not a single burial object or sacrificial object inside. It's empty, with only one coffin placed in the middle of the tomb chamber. The coffin is not sealed, and the coffin boards are standing beside it. You can see that it's empty without even walking over.

  The little cart frowned and said, "Is this the tomb of King Xiang? Legend has it that during the Western Zhou period, Xiang State was prosperous for a time. Why doesn't this tomb even have a single burial companion?"

  Wen Baiyu stood in the middle of the tomb, looking around, his mind buzzing, he didn't know if it was high altitude sickness or not, but he felt like his heart was beating too fast, and he couldn't help but feel tense, with sweat on his palms.

  But what's tense is that Wen Baiyu himself doesn't know, he always feels like something is approaching them...

  "Crack!"

  A faint sound came from behind...