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Not long after Hao Wen left, the street outside the inn was no longer silent. There were waves of hurried footsteps and panic shouts. The monks who had returned to the inn before also poured out of the inn, or grabbed passers-by to inquire about the reason. , or have already got the news and went straight to the scene.

Qingshi pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the voices outside, but the news he heard was very messy. Some said that something happened in the underground palace, and some said that someone died in the city lord's mansion. What exactly happened and who died? People, it seems that these people on the street are not very clear.

Xinyi in the room also felt the strangeness outside, she walked out of the wing with her body strong, and asked Qingshi, "Did something happen?"

"It looks like it is." Qing Shi turned around and walked to Xinyi, removed her hand from the door frame, put it on his shoulder, and explained while helping her to go back, "But it must be with you and me. It’s irrelevant, it’s probably an accident in the underground palace, you can rest assured that you won’t get involved.”

Xinyi was obviously not comforted by Qingshi, the expression on her face was still very nervous, but Qingshi's indifferent appearance made it difficult for her to mention other things, she just sighed helplessly, "Sometimes I really don't care I understand where your self-confidence comes from."

——Naturally comes from strength.

Qing Shi smiled, didn't say much, just helped Xinyi back to the bed, and then didn't go out to inquire about the news, just sat in the room and chatted with her about the topic of practice.

At noon, Hao Wen returned to the inn with a gloomy face.

Qing Shi was sitting on the edge of the bed talking to Xin Yi, seeing Hao Wen coming in like this, he immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "It looks like you are in trouble."

"Big trouble." Hao Wen sighed, pulled a chair, and sat down beside the bed. He lost his appetite and said bluntly, "There is a poisonous mist trap hidden in the secret room below. Once the restriction is lifted, the poison will disappear." It was all sprayed out, and the monks who went in died in sevens and eighties, and many of the monks who didn't go in also fell."

"It's normal, who wouldn't be defenseless when hiding treasures!" Qing Shi shrugged, and then asked suspiciously, "Wouldn't even the cultivator of the Pill Sect be dead?"

"If he died too, I wouldn't have come back to see you, but just ran away." Hao Wen snorted coldly to himself, "Han Shuo is really lucky, if he didn't come out to see you halfway to avoid disaster, Even if he is not dead now, he must be one of the three or three couples who are half-dead. Hmph, thinking about it this way, the timing of his coming out is too good, it is simply calculated."

"If you want to make shit up, please put yourself first." Qing Shi curled her lips and said, "Don't forget, the news about the underground palace was released by you Jiuliu League, monks from various sects and fairy sects They were all brought here by you, if you doubt it, you must doubt you first."

"That's right! Aren't you just suspicious of us now!" Hao Wen sneered angrily, "What's more coincidental is that at the same time as the incident below, the City Lord's Mansion above was also quietly slaughtered, and the entire City Lord's Mansion is now No one survived, even the Chen family's ancestral house in the east of the city was killed."

Hearing this, Qingshi and Xinyi were taken aback, and Xinyi blurted out subconsciously, "Who did it?"

"If only I knew." Hao Wen snorted irritably.

After being stunned, Qing Shi narrowed his eyes and looked at Hao Wen, as if he wanted to see something from him.

Noticing Qingshi's gaze, Hao Wen frowned and said, "Why, do you really doubt me?"

"The first one to be suspected is actually the Danmen." Qingshi said indifferently, "After all, the secret room was discovered by the Danmen first. The Danmen can say that they are proficient in magic circles or lucky, and others can also say They were tortured to extract confessions from the Chen family, and the reason why the Chen family was exterminated was because they were murdered."

"Good explanation!" Hao Wen immediately raised his eyebrows and clapped his hands.

"It's just an argument." Qing Shi shrugged, still staring at Hao Wen, "Besides, there is one very important thing that you have been avoiding - in that secret room, besides the poison, there is also have what?"

Being questioned by Qingshi, Hao Wen grinned, without a hint of resentment in his smile, "Guess?"

"Talk it or not, anyway, people won't suspect me." Qing Shi curled his mouth and replied disdainfully.

Hao Wen now understands that his tricks won't work on Qingshi, so he sighed immediately, took out a mirrored jade slip from his pocket, and handed it to Qingshi, "This was written before the secret room was opened. , you will understand after reading it.”

Qingshi didn't move, checked with his eyes and breath, and made sure that there was no tampering, then reached out to take it, poured spiritual power into it, carefully tested it, and then penetrated his spiritual consciousness.

What is recorded in the jade slip is a hall, except for the wall paintings, the floor and other places are as empty as other halls Qingshi has seen in the underground palace.But since Hao Wen showed him the jade slips, there must be something worth seeing in them. After a few glances on the empty floor, Qing Shi turned his attention to the murals on the wall.

Soon, Qing Shi frowned.

On the four walls, the most conspicuous side is the painting of the gods in the prehistoric era. In order to show their power and occupy more territory, they taught their skills to humans and beasts, and let them fight and rule instead of themselves.Humans and orcs seem to be flattered by the favor of the gods, and each of them looks excited and surprised. When fighting the enemy, they are also high-spirited and look at death as home.

But in another mural next to this wall, humans pointed ice blades at the gods who taught them, and the beasts also bit their owners.In some places, humans and beast races join forces to resist the gods, while in other places, humans and beast races continue to fight.

In the next third mural, there are only the figures of the gods. They stopped fighting each other and formed a circle holding hands, as if they were casting some kind of unfathomable mysterious spell, and the people surrounded by them , is a piece of green land carried on the back by a giant tortoise.

What is painted in the last mural is a simplified diagram of the Three Realms that monks are all too familiar with today. The outermost and most extensive part of the continent is the lower realm where mortals live. The flying elliptical space is the upper realm they are in, and further upwards, among the misty clouds, looming, is the legendary fairyland where only immortals can live.

——This mural depicts the cause and process of the separation of the Three Realms!

After seeing these four murals, Qingshi couldn't help feeling suspicious.This underground palace is obviously a medieval building, how could there be a scroll of events that the ancients may not know about?What is the identity of the builder of this underground palace?

Thinking about it, Qingshi suddenly felt that he seemed to have overlooked something, or in other words, something was missing in these four murals.

——By the way, the whereabouts of the Protoss!

Qing Shi soon realized that the whereabouts of the Protoss were not expressed in the mural, and the depiction of the fairy world was too illusory. I don't know if the person who drew it had limited knowledge or deliberately avoided it.

Immediately afterwards, Qingshi remembered that he had missed another point, and immediately turned his perspective to the ceiling of the hall.

Sure enough, that place was not as blank as the floor, but was engraved with dense ancient seals, each character was the size of a palm, and although the font was somewhat complicated, it was not difficult to recognize.

Qing Shi browsed through it quickly, and found that the content was somewhat different from what he had guessed—the text still did not mention the whereabouts of the Protoss, but only recorded the reason why they built the underground palace here.

They built this underground palace not to hide treasures, but because the fairy gate of the upper realm at that time had issued an expulsion order for ordinary people who did not have spiritual roots and could not cultivate. A waste of aura in the upper realm.

In order to protect their relatives and friends from being expelled, they worked together to excavate this underground palace, hid the relatives and friends of the clan who could not practice in it, and built a normal city where cultivators lived.It's just that although the relatives and friends of these clansmen who can't cultivate don't live as long as they do, they are very fertile. It didn't take long for the underground palace to be overcrowded.

In desperation, they can only continue to dig down, year after year, day after day, the underground palace is getting deeper and bigger.

However, living underground for a long time without seeing the sun has made these mortals' health worse and worse. Not to mention weak and short-lived, even the offspring have abnormalities. Walking, countless people died in infancy.

At this time, there were also differences within the clan. Many monks were unwilling to help these short-lived and weak clansmen any more, and even some monks wanted to send them to the lower realms, so that they could live the life that mortals should have like other mortals.

In the end, their leader, the monk who originally proposed to build the underground palace here, chose to compromise. He picked up all the people in the underground palace, escorted them to the lower realm himself, and stayed there to build a new home with them. There is no return either.

The murals in this secret room were drawn by the leader monk who had gone to the lower realms himself, not only to preserve the memory inheritance he heard from his ancestors, but also to commemorate his half-life practice.

——If it’s just a memory, how can it set up a ban and hide poison enough to kill people?

—— Among them, there must be resentment and curses against the sect Xianmen who proposed the expulsion order!

Qing Shi secretly sighed, withdrew his consciousness, and asked Hao Wen, "Can I show Xinyi?"

"Whatever you want." Hao Wen shrugged, "After today, I'm afraid this secret will no longer be a secret."

"It's true." Qingshi taunted the corner of his mouth, and passed the jade slip to Xinyi, while he turned around and continued to ask Hao Wen, "The image in your jade slip should not be recorded today, right?"

"How do you know?" Hao Wen was startled for a moment, then suddenly smiled again, "By the way, there are no dead or half-dead monks inside."

Qingshi ignored his teasing, and just continued to ask, "How did you record it? Did you not touch the mechanism when you entered?"

"We didn't go in at all." Hao Wen shrugged, "There is a master thief in our Jiuliu League. His family has a unique skill called the partition wall has eyes, which can peek through the wall to see things over there. This jade slip The image in the video was recorded by him."

"Of course, we have also tried to lift the restriction." Hao Wen sighed, and continued, "It's a pity that the restriction is too complicated. To break it, you need both knowledge and cultivation, and just one such person is not enough! I really couldn’t find enough people here, so I had to give up in the end—now that I think about it, this is actually luck, otherwise it would not be the people who died here today, but us.”

Hao Wen's emotion didn't resonate with Qing Shi at all, he just lowered his eyelids and stroked his chin as if thinking.

Although it is expected that the monks in the underground palace will be injured, the slaughter of the city lord's mansion and the Chen family is really inexplicable. It's just that they were not at the scene and have not been to the scene. Ji... Qingshi thought about it for a while, then put it behind her, and turned to look at Xinyi who was still looking at the jade slip.

Xinyi's browsing speed is much faster than that of Qingshi, and now she has put back her consciousness, and while passing the jade slip to Hao Wen, she asked doubtfully, "What's there to see here? A few murals?"

"...you don't understand ancient seal characters?" Qing Shi's mouth twitched when he heard that.

"What ancient seal?" Xinyi was obviously taken aback.

"You didn't see it at all, did you?" Qing Shi said helplessly.

Xinyi didn't make a sound, but the embarrassment on her face was enough to prove that Qingshi's words were correct, but Hao Wen who was next to her interrupted in surprise, "Can you understand?"

"Don't tell me, you can't understand either." Qing Shi's head was covered with black lines.

Hao Wen shrugged his shoulders and replied nonchalantly, "I can barely understand it. I have never been interested in writing. I was only forced to learn some things by my senior brother."

—Brother?

Qing very sensitively noticed this sudden title.In other words, discipline is usually the job of parents or masters, so how could it be related to seniors?Is it because his master doesn't take teaching his apprentice too seriously, or is his senior meddling too much?

But Hao Wen didn't introduce the meaning of his senior brother, and Qing Shi always didn't like to inquire about other people's privacy, so he didn't ask any questions, but just wrote down the matter silently.

"Well, can you explain to me, what is the secret in that jade slip?" Xinyi couldn't help being curious and asked.

"You come." Qing Shi waved first, letting Hao Wen speak.

Hao Wen glanced at Qing Shi helplessly, but still opened his mouth to tell the story recorded in the ancient seal, but did not explain the murals on the wall in detail, only saying that it might be describing the history of the Three Realms, some legends and legends.

Xinyi asked about the situation outside, and Hao Wen answered patiently.

When she learned that the Nascent Soul cultivator of the Shen family, Shen Xitong, was also poisoned, Xinyi couldn't help becoming nervous, and asked, "Did you die?"

"At least, not yet." Hao Wen shrugged.

Only then did Xinyi breathe a sigh of relief.

Qing Shi curled his lips and said sarcastically, "Don't you think it's better for him to die? Once he dies, the Shen family's children will have to start fighting for position and family property. How can they even think about chasing and killing you? The opponent's idiot enemy?"

Xinyi was used to being reprimanded lightly, so she only smiled self-deprecatingly when she heard this, and didn't make a sound.

On the contrary, Hao Wen showed some disapproval, but before he could speak for Xinyi, there was a knock on the door from the main hall, followed by a beast roar——

"Qingshi, open the door! If you don't open it, I will smash it!"

Hao Wen couldn't understand what it meant, but he couldn't help standing up curiously, and said to himself, "Whose spirit beast has gone to the wrong door?"

"My family." Qing Shi jumped off the bed, walked quickly into the main hall, and opened the door.

The one standing outside the door was indeed Wang Shuo, who immediately wagged his tail happily when he saw Qing Shi showing up, "I knew you wouldn't have the heart to shut me out!"

——I can't bear the door to be broken by you!

Qing Shi slanders in her heart, but she doesn't speak, she just gestures to Wang Shuo to shut up.

Wang Shuo had already smelled that there was more than one Qingshi in the room, and seeing that Qingshi refused to answer, he immediately nodded in understanding, lowered his head and bit out a sound transmission talisman from his collar, and handed it to Qingshi.

When Qingshi was receiving the sound transmission talisman, Hao Wen also came out of the wing room. Seeing that the spirit beast that came in was the one next to Han Shuo, he immediately raised his eyebrows and asked, "Isn't this Han Shuo's spirit beast? Did he come here? Don’t tell me something happened too?”

Hao Wen said it soundly, but Qingshi didn't even blink his eyelids.Although Wang Shuo doesn't like Han Shuo, he is not stupid, and he often mentions it, so he has already understood the importance of Han Shuo to him. If something happened to Han Shuo, how could Wang Shuo be so happy and relaxed? Do not come here slowly?

Qingshi ignored Hao Wen, clutching the sound transmission talisman in one hand and Wangshuo's collar in the other, turned around and walked towards the bedroom where he was temporarily staying.

Hao Wen immediately followed, but Qing Shi stepped into the door before turning around and blocking Hao Wen from the door, "Please don't listen to private matters."

Hao Wen still had some shame, he was stopped by Qingshi's stop, but Qingshi closed the door unceremoniously, and inserted the door bolt along the way.

Ignoring the expression of Hao Wenhui outside the door, he turned around lightly, took out the sound-proof array plate, put it in the spirit stone and hung it on his body, and then input the spirit power into the sound transmission talisman, and listened to the sound inside.

The sound-transmitting talisman was naturally sent by Han Shuo, to the effect that there was an accident in the underground palace, and he couldn't get away for a while. I'm afraid he won't have time to come to see Qingshi again, so he sent Wangshuo to inform him.If the restriction around Jinbi City disappears, Qingshi can leave on his own and return to the small town mentioned earlier to wait for him.

——Just toss about such a little thing.

Qing Shi curled his lips, cast the fire-igniting formula to burn the sound transmission talisman into ashes, then lowered his head and asked Wang Shuo, "Does he want me to call him back?"

"No." Wang Shuo shook his head, then wagged his tail, and added happily, "He only said that you should take care of me first, and come to pick me up when he's free."

—Let me take care of you?I want you to monitor me so that I won't sneak away again!

Qing Shi couldn't help but rolled his eyes.

But he couldn't push Wangshuo back, so he pulled the corners of his mouth and forced a smirk, "Okay, then you can stay and let me take care of you!"

"...Hey, don't laugh so hard that I get hairy, okay?" Wang Shuo immediately shivered sensitively.

Qing Shi smiled and said nothing, but Wang Shuo became more and more frightened, coupled with the smell of soup and medicine when he entered the door, he couldn't help but start to wonder if Qing Shi wanted to "abuse" him again - for example, feed him bitter medicine.

——Perhaps it would be better to go back to Han Shuo right away?

Wang Shuo hesitated.