Listen to the king's order

Hua Wudao and Fu Sheng chose the opposite direction, while Lan Xi and Lu Ming followed the footsteps of the women who had just passed by to meet them.

The light here is already dim, and there are red lights everywhere.For a "shadow" like Lu Ming who is used to hiding himself, it is a good place to follow.

This place is like a palace built in a grotto. There is no wind in the palace, but there are red gauze curtains flying all over the place.When they broke the formation just now, their foothold was like a corridor, and now Lu Ming and Lan Xi are going down the corridor.

Lu Ming thought of the costumes of those women just now and the bells at their feet, and couldn't help but associate them with the woman in green clothes on Mount Voga. He pondered for a while, and whispered in Lan Xi's ear: "Master, those few women just now woman……"

"how?"

"When I found Luo Jiuzhao's body on Mount Voga earlier, there was also a woman dressed like those women. She was dressed in green, covered her face with a green veil, and had a ring of golden bells around her waist. She could also control the white bears in the mountains by the sound of the bells. .”

"Do you suspect that the woman is with the people here?"

"Yeah." Lu Ming nodded: "Besides, looking at the woman's eyebrows and eyes, she doesn't look like a woman from the Central Plains, but looks like someone from the Northern Territory."

Lan Xi's calm eyes like an ancient well sank, and he said coldly, "If that's the case, Pei Tianxiao's game of chess is too big."

"Master, do you mean that these people followed Pei Tianxiao's orders?"

"It's hard to say." The corner of Lan Xi's mouth curled up, and a contemptuous smile hung on her delicate face: "It's not clear who listens to whom. How many things have happened in this short period of time since the destruction of the Xin family— The master of the rivers and lakes died on the Fujia Mountain, the woman in green suddenly appeared, the evil spirit suddenly appeared on the Fuxu Mountain, the evil spirit of the Golden Lotus Sect appeared in the world, and this mysterious palace right now. Pei Tianxiao has always had a "shadow" watching him, He alone can't do these things. Besides, he thinks very highly of himself, what he wants is the Mahayana exercises in the life request talisman, and he definitely won't secretly practice evil exercises. Besides, there are so many things going back and forth, Undoubtedly it does not point to the two sects—”

Lu Ming followed Lan Xi's thinking and blurted out, "Sky Eye Sect and Golden Lotus Sect."

"Well, I always feel that there is some connection between the Tianyan Sect and the Golden Lotus Sect. Master may know something, but he refuses to reveal it—someone is here."

Lan Xi and Lu Ming had just been walking down the corridor, and they were so absorbed in talking that they forgot to look at the road for a while.Suddenly they heard a small bell sound from behind them, and the two of them realized that they had reached the end of the corridor, and there was a spacious stone path in front of them, with no place to hide.

After all, Lu Ming was the "shadow". He reacted very quickly. He raised his eyes and glanced at the corridor, and immediately took Lan Xi's arm, turned around, and the two of them climbed onto the beam.

The beams of the corridor are extremely short and narrow, and can only accommodate the stature of one person.At this moment, Lu Ming was lying on the beam, and Lan Xi, who was dragged up by him, had to lie on top of him.

This action is really embarrassing, the two bodies are almost tightly attached to each other, only the heads are staggered from each other, and in this way, the other party's breath is sprayed on the side of the neck unscrupulously.

Lu Ming had never been so close to Lan Xi before, so close that he could touch the side of the man's face when he turned his head.Afraid that Lan Xi would fall, Lu Ming kept holding onto his arm tightly.Similarly, in order to maintain balance, Lan Xi put one hand on Lu Ming's neck and firmly grasped the beam under him.This posture is very similar to him holding Lu Ming tightly in his arms.

There was a "Dang Dang" sound from bells colliding below. Lan Xi looked through the gap between the beams and saw two women in purple walking slowly from the direction they had just come. One of them was holding a double-decker food box.

His eyes sank, and he heard the woman say: "Is the young man who arrived in the morning still not willing to eat?"

The other woman shook her head slightly, and pointed to the food box in her hand: "No, the elder asked me to try the new meal again."

"What if he still refuses to eat it? Finally, a man with cultivation came here. His essence and blood must be more nourishing than those mountain people. It would be a pity if he died before reaching fifteen..."

"That's right, the elder said that if he still refuses to eat it, he will be forced to stuff it in."

"..."

The figure of the woman gradually fades away——

Although Lu Ming couldn't see the woman's figure, what they said fell into his ears verbatim.

He whispered: "What they said just now is probably the scholar."

Lan Xi obviously thought the same way, he stared intently at the direction in which the woman was going, and said through his nose: "En."

Lu Ming only felt a warm breath gently brushing against his neck, making his heart itch.His breathing became a little heavier unconsciously, and even his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and there was a little unspeakable unease on his usually stern face.He moved his neck slightly, trying to escape the heat that kept hitting his neck.

As soon as he moved, Lan Xi raised his head from Lu Ming's shoulder subconsciously, looked straight at Lu Ming with ancient well-like eyes, and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

Lu Ming was almost driven mad by the gaze, and then heard Lan Xi's soft and hoarse voice, his eyes rolled, and a ball of evil fire "flew up" from his heart.

He wished... wished he could die immediately... it was too much torture!

Lan Xi saw that Lu Ming turned his head away from him, his frozen face in the past was slightly stained with blush, and there seemed to be water flowing between his dark eyes like ink, which was very similar to when he first saw Lu Ming. , his frightened deer eyes.So, the water waves in Lu Ming's eyes rippled in his heart after several turnovers like that.

He suddenly felt that his throat was a little dry, and he licked his small tongue lightly around his lips, and said in a deep voice, "But I suppressed you?"

Lu Ming didn't dare to look at Lan Xi again, but just shook his head silently.

The voice of the woman in purple finally completely disappeared, and Lan Xi landed as if she was about to receive an amnesty. Lu Ming grabbed his hand and led him to jump off the beam.

As soon as they landed, the two quickly let go of each other's hands at the same time.

Lan Xi pondered for a while: "The two women just now should have brought food to the scholar, let's follow."

Lu Ming nodded, suppressed his beating heart, and followed Lan Xi's footsteps closely.

The two of them collected their voices and followed the two purple-clothed women far away. The stone path they walked was not going straight forward, but winding downwards, and the gentle stone path turned into a stone staircase. .On both sides of the stone ladder, there are huge lamp posts, which are just convenient for Lu Ming and Lan Xi to hide.

From this point of view, the scholar should be locked in a dungeon or something.After about a cup of tea, the woman stopped in front of a stone gate.

Standing in front of the stone gate were two men wearing black armor and holding halberds.The woman in purple with the food box took out a wooden sign from her sleeve, and the man on the left glanced at it and opened the door.

Lu Ming and Lan Xi hid behind the huge lamp post in the distance, and saw the woman enter through the stone gate.They waited in silence for about a stick of incense before the woman came out.The food box, which was still full just now, has been lifted lightly on her wrist by her, and the woman said to the guard in front of the door with a smile on her face, "It's done."

Then he shook his foot, stepped on the silver bell, and left briskly.

After the woman left, Lan Xi appeared from the shadows, lowered her voice and whispered in Lu Ming's ear, "On the surface, there are only two guards here, but if there is a commotion in a fight, it will be bad if you attract others .At the moment we are not familiar with the terrain here, so we should not scare the snake away. Just go up to the acupuncture point to get the key."

Lu Ming and Lan Xi looked at each other and nodded.

Afterwards, the figures of the two moved slightly, and the situation under their feet changed, like ghosts in this dark cave.The two men guarding the door didn't even see who was coming, so their acupuncture points were tapped, and they stood there immediately, unable to move.

Lan Xi said: "Half an hour's strength."

Lu Ming paused his hand, and took out a bunch of keys from the black armor of the guard on the left: "My... two hours..."

The key fell into the lock, and "click" - the stone door opened in response.

The scholar who had just been forced to eat a delicious meal was lying on a big bed covered with red gauze curtains. His hands and feet were tied by ropes. When he heard the sound of the door opening, he didn't even lift his head. He turned over and said coldly, "Get out!"

The stone door closed gently, and two very light footsteps walked slowly to the bed.

"Get out! Even if I die, I won't take another bite! Even if I die, I will never let you get what you want! I will never be an evil creature that endangers the world!"

Something poked him—

Shuchen blushed, sat up from the bed, and shouted to the visitor: "I'll let you--" After seeing the person in front of him clearly, the word "roll" that Shuchen was about to say was abrupt Swallowed back into the stomach.

He burst into tears. The man who has always been prudent and dignified looked at Lu Ming and Lan Xi with snot and tears: "Brother Lan Xi! Brother Lu! They want to eat me!"

Lan Xi raised her eyebrows, sheathed the long sword in her hand, a silver light flashed in the dark stone room, and the rope binding the scribe's hands and feet broke into several knots.

The scholar who just broke free from the shackles rushed over and hugged Lan Xi: "Brother Lan Xi, I knew you would come to save me!"

It's okay for Lan Xi to be embraced by the scholar.He grabbed Shu Chen by his collar and pulled him off his body, the expression he looked at Shu Chen was exactly the same as when Hua Wudao looked at Fu Sheng - disgust.

Lu Ming said: "Don't waste time, Shuchen, let me ask you, do you know where this is?"

Shu Chen wiped away his tears: "Brother Lu, I don't know where this is. I suddenly fell from the cave to this place, and then they arrested me. Except for the women who brought me food, I I only saw one man, he was about the same age as our sect leader, but I heard those women call him an 'elder'. It was that elder, he said that I had practiced inner strength and mental skills, and I had a lot of cultivation. Those mountain people nourished a lot, and then they locked me here, saying that they would dedicate me to some 'lord' when they were fifteen."

In the words of the secretary, Lu Ming extracted two key information.First, in this palace made of grottoes, there is a venerable master, who is probably the leader of these people, and he is practicing yin and evil skills.Second, as they had guessed, the mountain people on Mount Buxu had indeed disappeared and were captured by these people.As for that elder, it should be the Lord's right-hand man.

"Where are those mountain people? Have you seen them?"

The secretary shook his head: "They just threw me here after they caught me, and they haven't been anywhere else."

Lan Xi said: "It seems that they separated the Shuchen and the mountain people. Anyway, let's leave here and meet up with the seniors first."

"who--"