Fire and theft prevention

Mu Qingjia, Huo Wei, and Gu Xiao stood in front of the fox cave, watching Huo Ting crawling in with his round butt pouted in silence.

Gu Xiao looked at this ordinary earth cave, and questioned: "Are you sure you can find that fox demon here?"

"It feels like it." Huo Long said in a muffled voice in the cave, "Try it, it won't hurt."

Seeing that he was too slow to squeeze in, Huo Wei got impatient, so she kicked Huo Taki's ass and kicked him in.

The boy rolled over with a loud "Ouch", and then said pleasantly, "It's quite spacious inside! Come in quickly."

With a flick of Huo Wei's fingertip, a golden flame landed on the edge of the fox cave, and soon expanded into a flame ring.The earth and stone were burned into a slurry, revealing a hole big enough for one person to pass through.

Mu Qingjia gave Huo Weiyi a hesitant look.

"The Golden Winged Envoy is deep in the mountain, you can try it." Huo Wei said casually, "At worst, we can just stab the mountain right through, and I don't believe they won't come out."

After saying that, he stepped into the cave.

As Huo Taki said, the cave is indeed much more spacious.The rock wall is uneven, and it is not easy to tell whether it is a natural cave or a man-made cave.

Huo Wei lit a pinch of flames with his fingertips, and Gu Xiao and Huo Long also took out the Bright Light Talisman to illuminate the cave.

However, before they took a few steps, they were blocked by a stone wall in front of them.

Seeing the other three people stop one after another, Mu Qingjia wondered: {Why don't you leave? }

"You can't see?" Huo Wei sensitively asked.

{What? }

Huo Wei understood. "This wall is an illusion." He asked Mu Qingjia, "Look carefully, can you see anything unusual?"

Mu Qingjia concentrated her attention and poured the wood spirit energy into her spirit eyes.The vision became clearer and more transparent, and there were several brown runes hidden behind the white soil and rocks, arranged in a special pattern.

He pointed them out one by one, and every time he pointed out the runes, the runes were burned away by Huo Wei's flames.

After the talisman array was destroyed, what they saw was no longer a stone wall, but a deep cave.

"Let's go." Huo Wei lifted his foot forward.

This simple phantom array may be to stop mortals and monks with low cultivation levels.But the appearance of the talisman also proved another thing: they found the right way.

Mu Qingjia sneered, thinking that this kid Huo Long is surprisingly lucky sometimes, and he was really fooled by a mistake.

Since then, they encountered similar talisman arrays to confuse people's eyes several times. Sometimes they pretended to be dead ends, and sometimes they pretended to go out of caves, but once they entered, they were traps.

If it was an ordinary Golden Core stage immortal cultivator, he would have been planted long ago, but with Mu Qingjia and Huo Wei around, their journey went smoothly.

It was the first time for Huo Ting to see so many phantom formations, and he couldn't help being amazed: "It is said in the book that the fox is treacherous, good at witchcraft, illusion, and has the ability to prophesy. I have seen it today."

After a stick of incense passed, Huo Wei began to get impatient, and the butterfly on his waist was about to move, obviously starting to think about how to fulfill the foreword and poke a hole in the mountain.

But this time, when they broke through a talisman array again, they saw strips of variegated silk hanging on the cave wall in front of them.

The silk is mostly red, but it is also mixed with gray and brown. It is soft and silky, obviously carefully manufactured.

"What is this?" Huo Taki approached Lingluo curiously, then wrinkled his nose. "Smells like a fox."

"It's best not to move around." Gu Xiao warned, "If something goes wrong, no one will save you."

Huo Taki's nose was itching from the smell of the fox, and he wanted to sneeze, but he immediately covered his mouth tightly.

Huo Wei also wrinkled his nose and walked up to Ling Luo, observing it in front of his eyes.The silk texture is delicate, the curvature is flexible, and each fiber is half-length but not short, just like animal hair.

"Fox armpit." He judged.

Huo Ting was surprised and said: "Fox armpit? When I was a child, I saw people wearing fox armpit fur. It is very expensive."

There is a saying that "the skin of a thousand sheep is not as good as the tuck of a fox". The fox's armpit is the softest fur on the fox's body, but it only has a small piece under the limbs, so it is very rare, even the princes and nobles rarely have one. two pieces.

Mu Qingjia rubbed her fingers unconsciously.

There are so many fox armpit silks, how many fox hairs are used to make them?

How many fox demons live here? ——In other words, how many fox demons have lived here?

Seeing that things had made new progress, Huo Ting became more and more excited.He was already walking in the front, but now he was walking briskly, holding up the bright light talisman and looking here and there, he was almost three steps away.

"Junior brother." Gu Xiao had no choice but to remind, "The fox cave is intricate, don't disperse, and act cautiously."

Huo Long gave two perfunctory "hmm" sounds, and walked straight down to the wall made by the talisman formation.

Seeing the way the two seniors got along, Mu Qingjia felt it was funny: Huo Long had a youthful heart, and although Gu Xiao had a cold face, he took care of the juniors meticulously, just like a father and mother.

What my senior brother did seems to be not as competent as Gu Xiao, and I have to bother my junior brother, and I don't know how to bring him back to life.

Just thinking about it, Mu Qingjia looked at the road ahead, but suddenly felt that something was wrong.

There is a dead end ahead, but at the foot of the real stone wall, the white mist is relatively thin, with vertical lines, not like stone, but more like a board.

There was nothing under the board, and at Huo Taki's speed, he would step on the empty space and fall down after two steps.

In desperation, Mu Qingjia didn't have time to write, and just wanted to run a few steps to pull Huo Long back.

Huo Wei also saw something was wrong from his expression, and shouted: "Don't move! Be careful of the trap!"

The boy was shocked by his roar, and his legs fought again, and his body fell straight to the wooden board.

Before that, Mu Qingjia finally arrived and grabbed him by the back collar.

But what Mu Qingjia didn't remember was that his body now is just a wood carving, the kind that can be easily carried in his pocket.Even though Huo Ting was a teenager, he was much heavier than him, leading him to fall down.

The wooden plank opened suddenly under the force, and then closed again after the two fell into it.

At the same time, the opening and closing of the wooden boards triggered the mechanism, and the silk hanging on the cave wall was instantly tightened, spreading to the depths of the ground, and a distant bell sounded, permeating the narrow cave.

The sound of the bell was breathtaking, and everyone who heard it was dizzy, as if the soul was forcibly torn apart and pulled out of the body.

The blue veins on Gu Xiao's forehead were exposed, he resisted the stinging pain, jumped onto the wooden plank, and inserted the pillow cold sword into it.

Ice covered the board, but in the next second, a complicated spell appeared on it, and the brown earth aura swallowed the water aura, leaving the board intact.

"Five Elements Circular Curse." He gritted his teeth.

This kind of spell is extremely difficult to draw, but once it is made, it can transform the corresponding aura to resist attacks.

Gu Xiao belongs to the root of water spirit, so this spell is counteracted by the aura of earth, soil restrains water, and the restraint of attributes directly reduces his aura by nearly one-fifth.

Gu Xiao doesn't specialize in talisman, he can spend three sticks of incense to unravel this talisman, but time waits for no one.

So he turned his attention to Huo Wei.

"Master Huo?" He immediately showed a look of surprise.

I saw Huo Wei sitting recliningly by the cave wall, his handsome face was pale, his eyes were empty and lifeless, and sweat rolled down his eyelashes in big drops.

The ringing of the bell just now had a much greater impact on Huo Wei than on Gu Xiao himself.

But now he can only pin his hopes on Huo Wei, and he has no other choice.

"Master Huo!" He raised his voice, "Mu Qingjia is in danger!"

The name hit Huo Wei's eardrums hard, and the spirit began to gather in his eyes again.Huo Wei stood up holding the Butterfly Sword, at first his steps were shaky, but after two or three steps, he stabilized his figure.

Afterwards, he swung his sword silently, and the flames slashed straight at the board!

The Five Elements Reversal Curse was triggered again, and thick mist filled the entire cave.But when they met the golden flame, they lost the limelight and were forcibly evaporated into gas.

Jin Yan burned the plank and the spell into coke, and Huo Wei jumped into the cave without hesitation.

The cave was bottomless, and even if illuminated by the Bright Light Talisman, only darkness could be seen.Gu Xiao clenched the sword in his hand and jumped in.

The flames in front exploded, and amidst a series of explosions, layers of defensive spells were wiped out under the Underworld Butterfly Sword.

Huo Wei's display of strength was so strong that Gu Xiao even began to wonder whether the Heshi bracelet had lost its effect long ago.

He has always been thoughtful, and soon discovered two other strange things.

First, as they went deeper, the walls of the cave became smoother and more regular, and there were more and more wooden structures, which almost supported the entire cave.

——What is certain is that this is by no means an ordinary monster cave, but a huge and complex settlement of monster races.

Second, there are many forks in the fox cave, but Huo Wei can always make a decisive choice.

No matter how reckless a person faces so many choices, it is impossible for him to be without a little hesitation. Huo Wei looks like——like he knows where Mu Qingjia is.

The fall lasted less than half a stick of incense.But after they hit the bottom, there was not even a shadow of an animal around, let alone the missing Huo Long and Mu Qingjia.

Huo Weiyi clapped his palms on the cave wall, and inserted his five fingers deep into the cracks in the stone.

"He's not here." He roared hoarsely, "It's obviously in this direction!"

The voice was as rough as a knife, as if it had been smoked by swallowing ten catties of gunpowder.

Gu Xiao was taken aback by the voice, and when he looked at Huo Wei again, he saw red eyes, and bright red charms floating on his pale skin, like carefully carved bloodstains.

The Underworld Butterfly Sword completely became a golden flame sword, and the golden flames released flowed all over his body.The He Shi Bracelet vibrated unceasingly, making an unbearable buzzing sound.

Gu Xiao's pupils shrank suddenly: Carve a spell on the skin?Still the whole body!Are you crazy?

He once knew a senior who had experienced the Tribulation of Immortal Demons. In order to improve the possibility of surviving on the battlefield, that person carved his left arm with a magic circle of gathering spirits.

Doing so is equivalent to offering a part of one's body to the aura of heaven and earth, allowing it to be eaten away.Therefore, as long as the spiritual energy is used, even if it is only for cultivation, it will cause heart-piercing pain.

When Gu Xiao saw that senior for the first time, his left arm had already been cut off by himself.

Because of that unbearable pain.

So it's hard for Gu Xiao to imagine that someone would engrave his whole body with charms in order to gain power!It was so painful that it was impossible for ordinary people to maintain their sanity, so how could he bear it?

Before he could think too much, Huo Wei raised the Underworld Butterfly Sword, looking like he wanted to split the cave directly.

"Master Huo!" Gu Xiao hurriedly persuaded, "Master Mu's spell is superb, and it will be fine for a while. If you make a rash move, it will easily affect other people in the cave; second, it will scare the snake and hurt them."

He pointed to the depths of the cave with the hilt of his sword, and he saw fox armpit silks of various colors everywhere, and a copper bell was hanging under each piece of silk. Among the copper bells, brass fox heads were quietly watching.

"Besides, you don't want to hear that bell again."

Huo Wei seemed to have listened to his words, and looked in the direction he pointed.

"The soul-destroying bell—it just happens to be the soul-destroying bell!" Huo Wei gritted his teeth.

His chest rose and fell violently, like a dilapidated bellows beating rapidly.The aura of fire continued to overflow through the bracelet, sparks crackled and exploded, and even ignited my hair.

Gu Xiao felt more and more that something was wrong.It is impossible for ordinary people to be so manic because of a short separation, let alone Huo Wei, the underworld butterfly sword who is well-known in the world of cultivating immortals and rumored to be a gentleman?

While he was in doubt, he suddenly saw Huo Wei leaning over to cover his lips, his throat rolled, and he spit out several mouthfuls of dirty blood.

For several days, he has been acting extremely aggressive and powerful, so no one thought that Huo Wei was still injured.

The flame evaporated the dirty blood in his palm, leaving behind a layer of scab, which turned into powder and fell off.

After spitting out the blood, Huo Wei felt a little better. He closed his eyes and kept taking deep breaths. His manic breath gradually calmed down.

The darkness after closing his eyes left him endless room for reverie.

At the end of the darkness, a pair of warm hands gently caressed his hot cheeks.

"Calm down, Ah Wei, learn to control your fire root, don't let it mess around." The voice with a smile said, "Don't worry. Brother will always be by your side."

Ah.Huo Wei laughed abruptly.

fraud.

His voice was like a frightened bird, struggling in the claustrophobic cave, spreading far away.

"it's all my fault."

he murmured.

Gu Xiao heard those words in his ears with a complicated expression.

Huo Wei put the Underworld Butterfly Sword back to his waist, and when he looked up again, his eyes had returned to clarity.He could feel that the point representing Mu Qingjia was also constantly moving.

If they go straight ahead, they will eventually meet at the midpoint of the underground cave.